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BRISK
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Very active
Example:
doing a brisk business
Classified under:
Similar:
active (full of activity or engaged in continuous activity)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Quick and energetic
Example:
a spanking breeze
Synonyms:
alert; brisk; lively; merry; rattling; snappy; spanking; zippy
Classified under:
Similar:
energetic (possessing or exerting or displaying energy)
Derivation:
briskness (liveliness and eagerness)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Imparting vitality and energy
Example:
the bracing mountain air
Synonyms:
bracing; brisk; fresh; refreshful; refreshing; tonic
Classified under:
Adjectives
Similar:
invigorating (imparting strength and vitality)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Become brisk
Example:
business brisked up
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Hypernyms (to "brisk" is one way to...):
accelerate; quicken; speed; speed up (move faster)
Sentence frame:
Something ----s
Context examples:
The founder of that great emporium proved to be a brisk, crisp little person, very dapper and quick, with a clear head and a ready tongue.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
That means business will be brisk, good news for every Gemini and doubly so if you are self-employed.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
They were not unlike birds, altogether; having a sharp, brisk, sudden manner, and a little short, spruce way of adjusting themselves, like canaries.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
I've been working away at mathematics till my head is in a muddle, and I'm going to freshen my wits by a brisk turn.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
The ladies, since the gentlemen entered, have become lively as larks; conversation waxes brisk and merry.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
A brisk wind was blowing into the cove, and though the water was calm, rapid work was required to get us safely out.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
His manner was brisk, and yet his general appearance gave an undue impression of age, for he had a slight forward stoop and a little bend of the knees as he walked.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
High reeds of a peculiar type grew thickly before us, which were pronounced to be equisetacea, or mare's-tails, with tree-ferns scattered amongst them, all of them swaying in a brisk wind.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
It is composed of poorly differentiated neoplastic astrocytes and it is characterized by the presence of cellular polymorphism, nuclear atypia, brisk mitotic activity, vascular thrombosis, microvascular proliferation and necrosis.
(Glioblastoma, NCI Thesaurus/WHO)
Thorpe only lashed his horse into a brisker trot; the Tilneys, who had soon ceased to look after her, were in a moment out of sight round the corner of Laura Place, and in another moment she was herself whisked into the marketplace.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
