Vivacious means lively and full of high spirits. A vivacious hostess, vivacious and charming, a vivacious personality.
It is applied overwhelmingly to women, which is one of those patterns worth noticing before reaching for it. The Latin behind it means long-lived and vigorous, from the verb to live.
1adjectivevivaciousLively and full of high spirits.
“Their vivacious daughter chatted and laughed with every guest at the party.”
vivacious is a quality.
Latin vivax means lively or vigorous, from vivere, to live.
Proto-Indo-European
*gʷeyh₃-
Latin
vīvāx — lively, vigorous
English, today
vivacious
Built from
From Latin vīvāx (“lively, vigorous”) -acious, from vīvō (“to live”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA