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look lively

look lively verb: synonym of look alive.

Verb

look lively (third-person singular simple present looks lively, present participle looking lively, simple past and past participle looked lively)

  1. (imperative) Synonym of look alive.
    • The train was well filled, with quite an amount of intermediate business; but station staff and passengers alike seemed ready enough to "look lively", and the result was a general "slickness" in working that augers^([sic]) well for the future.1959 June, O. S. Nock, “British Locomotive Practice and Performance”, in Railway Magazine, page 408
    Synonyms:
    look alive

Synonyms of look lively

Forms of look lively

third-person singular presentlooks lively
present participlelooking lively
past participlelooked lively
pastlooked lively

Questions about look lively

What does look lively mean?
Look lively means synonym of look alive.
What part of speech is look lively?
Look lively is a verb.
What is the past tense of look lively?
The past tense of look lively is looked lively.

Words near look lively in the dictionary

  1. look like something the cat brought in
  2. look like something the cat dragged in
  3. look like something the cat's dragged in
  4. look like who did it and ran
  5. look like who did it and ran away
  6. look lively
  7. look Ma, no hands
  8. look off
  9. look on
  10. look on as
  11. look on the black side

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