Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Energy and enthusiasm in the expression of ideas, especially in artistic performance or composition.
- noun Vitality; liveliness. synonym: vigor.
- noun Archaic Literary aptitude or talent.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Enthusiasm, especially in what pertains to art and literature; spirit; energy.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Excitement of imagination such as animates a poet, artist, or musician, in composing or performing; rapture; enthusiasm; spirit; energy.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun
Excitement ofimagination such as that whichanimates apoet ,artist , ormusician , incomposing orperforming - noun
artistic energy andenthusiasm - noun
vigour ,vitality andliveliness - noun
rapture ,enthusiasm - noun
spirit ,energy
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun an energetic style
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Mistral tuned his lyre for a poetry that in verve and vigour does not yield to any of his previous works.
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Its style is high in Latin verve: the language of ballet infused with rhumba, tango and salsa, as well as the athleticism of the Brazilian martial art form capoeira.
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To have that kind of verve and oomph must be amazing.
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According to a recent article in the NYT, NPR is dissatisfied with their record 28 million listeners, and has been doing research to determine how to give their programming more 'verve'.
Bruce Gilardi: Take Them Away, Please (Or, How to Numb Your Mind in the Morning) 2008
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That kind of verve is absent in "The House of Steinbrenner."
NYT > Home Page 2010
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Frustrating, because you wonder just where this kind of verve has been during the last 30 to 40 days.
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I see this same kind of verve in the 62 papers that have initially joined with HuffPost to produce
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Leah Finnegan 2010
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Meanwhile, Oonagh lost her "verve" for nursing and did a diploma in holistic health.
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With a kind of verve no doubt fed by digital culture, sci-fi, "post-abstract" painting and the punk, new-wave and hip-hop music that fuel his age rather than the ashcan / surrealism / tragedy / jazz diet his AbEx predecessors noshed on, Tomory Dodge, in his latest work, makes barely imagistic images comprising mostly color, shape, gesture and plays of surface.
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It'd be nice if we got more of them done with the kind of verve we've seen in this new
How Now Brownpau 2009
dbekeny commented on the word verve
LION
(sings)
Yeh, it's sad, believe me, Missy
When you're born to be a sissy,
Without the vim and verve.
But I could show my prowess --
Be a lion not a mou-ess --
If I only had the nerve
I'm afraid there's no denyin'
I'm just a dande-lion --
A fate I don't deserve.
I'd be brave as a blizzard --
June 11, 2010