The Collaborative International Dictionary
Vivacious \Vi*va"cious\ (?; 277), a. [L. v['i]vax, -acis, fr. vivere to live. See Vivid.]
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Having vigorous powers of life; tenacious of life; long-lived. [Obs.]
Hitherto the English bishops have been vivacious almost to wonder. . . . But five died for the first twenty years of her [Queen Elizabeth's] reign.
--Fuller.The faith of Christianity is far more vivacious than any mere ravishment of the imagination can ever be.
--I. Taylor. Sprightly in temper or conduct; lively; merry; as, a vivacious poet. ``Vivacious nonsense.''
--V. Knox.-
(Bot.) Living through the winter, or from year to year; perennial. [R.]
Syn: Sprightly; active; animated; sportive; gay; merry; jocund; light-hearted. [1913 Webster] -- Vi*va"cious*ly, adv. -- Vi*va"cious*ness, n.
Wiktionary
adv. In a vivacious manner.
WordNet
adv. with vivacity; "he describes his adventures vivaciously"
Usage examples of "vivaciously".
There--still high elevated above the rest of the company, to whom he vivaciously cries-- he seems some Turkish Muezzin calling the good people to prayers from the top of a tower.
He was driving the family out for a picnic one day and my mother, who had just become engaged, was sitting beside him on the box discoursing vivaciously on the marvels of this man she was to marry.
He opened his eyes long enough to notice Helene across the room, talking vivaciously with a brown-haired, undistinguished-looking woman, and closed them again.
She was about his own age, red-haired and vivaciously pretty, and she smelled of flowers.