enlivening

1. 1.

   giving spirit and vivacity

   Synonymsanimating

   Similarinvigorating

Questions about enlivening

What does enlivening mean?

enlivening means "giving spirit and vivacity".

How many syllables are in enlivening?

enlivening has 4 syllables: en-li-ve-ning. The stress falls on "li". In IPA it is /ɛnˈlaɪvənɪŋ/.

What is another word for enlivening?

Close synonyms include animating. 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 enlivening a common word?

enlivening is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.