brisk

1. 1.

   become brisk

   “business brisked up”

   Synonymsbrisk upbrisken

   Broaderaccelerate

Other forms of brisk

past tense

brisked·

present participle

brisking·

third person

brisks·

comparative

brisker·

superlative

briskest·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about brisk

What does brisk mean?

brisk means "quick and energetic". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in brisk?

brisk has 1 syllable: brisk. In IPA it is /ˈbɹɪsk/.

What is another word for brisk?

Close synonyms include alert, lively, merry, rattling, snappy. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is brisk a common word?

brisk is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.