Difference between Lively and Energetic

What is the difference between Lively and Energetic?

Lively as an adjective is full of life; energetic. while Energetic as an adjective is possessing, exerting, or displaying energy.

Lively

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: Full of life; energetic.

Part of speech: adverb

Definition: In a lifelike manner; vibrantly, vividly.

Example sentence: Belief is nothing but a more vivid, lively, forcible, firm, steady conception of an object, than what the imagination alone is ever able to attain.

Energetic

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: Possessing, exerting, or displaying energy.Of or relating to energy.

Example sentence: I was surrounded at the time by about a dozen of the enemy, whose clubs rattled upon me without mercy, and the strokes of my sabre were rendered uncertain by the energetic pushes of an attendant who thus hoped to save me.

We hope you now know whether to use Lively or Energetic in your sentence.

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