liven

Other forms of liven

past tense

livenned·

present participle

livenning·

third person

livens·

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 liven

What does liven mean?

liven means "make lively".

How many syllables are in liven?

liven has 2 syllables: li-ven. The stress falls on "li". In IPA it is /ˈlaɪvən/.

What is another word for liven?

Close synonyms include enliven, liven up, invigorate, animate. 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 liven a common word?

liven is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with liven?

1 word rhymes with liven. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.