brisk
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Synonyms & Antonyms for brisk
Synonyms: Adjective
active, airy, animate, animated, bouncing, energetic, frisky, gay, jaunty, jazzy, kinetic, lively, mettlesome, peppy, perky, pert, pizzazzy (or pizazzy), racy, snappy, spanking, sparky, spirited, sprightly, springy, vital, vivacious, zippy
Antonyms: Adjective
dead, inactive, inanimate, lackadaisical, languid, languishing, languorous, leaden, lifeless, limp, listless, spiritless, vapid
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Examples of brisk in a Sentence
Adjective
She answered the phone in a brisk voice. They went for a brisk walk in the woods.
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Homers are spectacle, double plays usually snappy and brisk, great snatches just over the wall both graceful and an exercise in wistful what-might-have-beens. — Stephen Hunter, National Review, "Baseball Plays at the Plate," 22 Aug. 2019 Across the stadium in the neighborhood of Besiktas that is home to the team of the same name pub manager Cem Duran is also stocking up, doubling his orders in anticipation of brisk sales. — Gul Tuysuz, CNN, "Istanbul bar owners braced for English soccer fans," 13 Aug. 2019These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'brisk.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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brisk
adjective