Adjective: vive
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more vive |
| Superlative | most vive |
Sample Sentences
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1890, Samuel Harvey Reynolds, Introduction The Essays of Francis Bacon
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the French King, when by a vive and forcible persuasion he moved him to a war upon Flanders
Adjectives inflected like vive
priest-ridden,
unreposed,
evadible,
dissentious,
dissentient,
unforesighted,
egocentrical,
unephemeral,
unennobling,
mensuralist,
flocculent,
unseductive,
whoopsy,
whooshy,
surrogate,
Nicodian,
unrepaired,
prismatoidal,
renorenal,
unseducible, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology
From Latin vivus. Compare French vif. See vivid. See: Latin Adjectives '
vivus', French Adjectives '
vif'.