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[syn: buoyant, chirpy, perky]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Perky \Perk"y\, a.
Perk; pert; jaunty; trim.
[1913 Webster]
There amid perky larches and pines. --Tennyson.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
perky
adj 1: characterized by liveliness and lightheartedness;
"buoyant spirits"; "his quick wit and chirpy humor";
"looking bright and well and chirpy"; "a perky little
widow in her 70s" [syn: buoyant, chirpy, perky]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
71 Moby Thesaurus words for "perky":
active, activist, activistic, aggressively self-confident, airy,
alive, animated, biggety, bouncing, bouncy, breezy, bright,
bright-eyed and bushy-tailed, brisk, bubbly, bumptious, buoyant,
carefree, cheerful, cheery, chesty, chipper, cocky, conceited,
corky, debonair, ebullient, effervescent, energetic, free and easy,
frisky, full of go, full of life, full of pep, gay, immodest,
invigorated, jaunty, know-it-all, light, lighthearted, lightsome,
live, lively, mercurial, militant, obtrusive, overwise, peacockish,
peacocky, peppy, perk, pert, puffed up, quicksilver, resilient,
self-conceited, self-opinionated, smacking, smart-alecky, snappy,
spanking, spirited, sprightly, spry, stuck-up, swelled-headed,
vigorous, vitalized, vivacious, zingy