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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. She walked at a brisk pace. Business is brisk at the store. There is a brisk market in old movie posters.
Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective
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. 2019 Winds out of the west could be brisk at times, gusting up to 20 mph, said the National Weather Service in Boulder. — Kirk Mitchell, The Denver Post, "Denver weather: Sunshine with warm temperatures Monday," 12 Aug. 2019 Although results are heading in the right direction, Mr Tucker thinks progress should have been brisker. — The Economist, "The surprising departure of HSBCâs chief executive," 8 Aug. 2019 Action at the beer vendors in the back of the arena was brisk. — Meg Jones, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, "Gov. Tony Evers sells his first livestock at State Fair auction," 7 Aug. 2019 Meanwhile, business is brisk: This week the company said profits in its most recent quarter rose 18 percent to $44 million. — Washington Post, "Billion-dollar baby: How Carterâs became a staple of just about every childâs wardrobe," 25 July 2019 South Alabama season ticket sales for 2020 have been brisk since beginning in early July. — Creg Stephenson | Cstephenson@al.com, al, "South Alabamaâs Hancock Whitney Stadium âon schedule, on budgetâ," 24 July 2019 Even pared down to a brisk seventy-five minutes, the saga retained its maddening complexity, notwithstanding the deadpan efforts of Annette Bening, as the narrator, and Kevin Kline, as Mueller himself. — Jeffrey Toobin, The New Yorker, "âItâs the End of My Presidencyâ: Movie Stars Channel Mueller," 1 July 2019Recent Examples on the Web: Verb
THE VIBE IS: brisk and professional, if borderline chaotic. — Bon AppĂ©tit, Bon Appetit, "E. Dehillerin," 13 Apr. 2017These 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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