vivacious

/vaɪˈveɪ.ʃəs/

Etymology

From Latin vīvāx, vīvāci- (“lively, vigorous”) + -ous, from vīvere (“to live”).

vivacious means lively and animated; full of life and energy. Lexicurio rates it Rare gem — a strength score of 77 out of 100.

Why this word is great

VIVACIOUS — [Adjective] Possessing a robust, inherent, and sustained vitality of spirit. From the Latin vīvāx, vīvāci- ("lively, vigorous"), from vīvere ("to live"), with the English suffix -ous. Unlike "effervescent," which suggests a fizzy and often temporary excitement, or "sprightly," which connotes a nimble and dainty briskness, vivacious denotes an enduring animation of character. It is the contralto laugh that carves light from the air, the determined unfurling of a bloom on a cloudy day, the unquenchable light in a speaker's eyes that holds a room at midnight—a quiet argument against entropy, made simply by continuing to burn.

adj

Lively and animated; full of life and energy.“Thus then society is not arranged in clans, but in tribes, united by the general sense of a common name, a common abode, a common history, a common religion, and a remote sense of a common tribal stock, without any sense of personal affinity in each individual case. Again, it is curious to observe that the xenial relation was not less vivacious than that of blood.”
Long-lived.“Hitherto the English bishops had been vivacious almost to wonder. For, necessarily presumed of good years before entering on their office, in the first of queen Elizabeth it was much that but five died for the first twenty years of her reign.”
Difficult to kill.