looking lively
looking lively is the present participle and gerund of look lively.
Meaning of look lively
Verb
look lively (third-person singular simple present looks lively, present participle looking lively, simple past and past participle looked lively)
- 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
Questions about looking lively
- What is looking lively the present participle and gerund of?
- Looking lively is the present participle and gerund of look lively.
Words near looking lively in the dictionary
- looking like something the cat brought in
- looking like something the cat dragged in
- looking like something the cat's dragged in
- looking like who did it and ran
- looking like who did it and ran away
- looking lively
- looking off
- looking on
- looking on as
- looking on the black side
- looking on the bright side
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