verb
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(often with "up") To make or become lively; to enliven; to animate.
adjective
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Full of liveliness and activity; characterized by quickness of motion or action
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We took a brisk walk yesterday.
synonyms
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Full of spirit of life; effervescing
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Sparkling; fizzy
example
brisk cider
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Stimulating or invigorating.
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This morning was a brisk fall day. It wasn't cold enough for frost, but you wanted to keep moving.
definition
Abrupt, curt in one's manner or in relation to others.
Examples of brisk in a Sentence
Alex followed her with brisk steps.
His brisk walk was stiff.
The governor was a brisk little man, very simple and affable.
Olives and other fruit are grown, and a brisk trade is done in olive oil.
He gave a brisk nod.
The air was cold, brisk, the snowflakes falling faster.
His step was brisk as he walked around to the other side, but when he climbed into the truck, his expression was bland.
One must not forget that there was a brisk native manufacture of carpets, pottery, ironwork, gold-work and soap; or that the Syrians of the towns had a definite legal position.
She watched him as he answered it and then headed toward her at a brisk pace.
Her step grew less brisk.
A good brisk walk up a steep rugged trail would leave him too exhausted to make advances.
The Jews and Armenians are engaged in a brisk trade with Odessa, to which they send corn, wine, spirits and timber, floated down from Galicia, as well as with the interior, to which they send manufactured wares imported from Austria.
At Meshed i Sar, the port, or roadstead of Barfurush, the steamers of the Caucasus and Mercury Company call weekly, and a brisk shipping trade is carried on between it and other Caspian ports.
In spite of the wound, he hobbled away at a brisk pace to the nearby woods at the edge of the property.
Claustrophobic in the dark cave that had become her home, she grabbed her coat and purse and set out into the cold, brisk evening.
Once clear of town, Dean drove along at a brisk clip, trying without success to engage Martha in conversation.
He slowed his brisk stride for her to draw and keep abreast.
A brisk step in the hallway brought her attention sharply back to the present.
Slipping into a modest two-piece swimsuit with a skirted bottom, she grabbed a towel and headed out at a brisk walk for the beach.
She gave a brisk nod to indicate she heard.
Under their mild and just rule both the native Greeks and the Italian residents were able to carry on a brisk trade.
Combustion calorimeters are employed for observing the heat generated by the brisk interaction of substances, one of which at least is gaseous.
Building and the allied trades are chronically brisk, owing to the constant development of the city.
There is a harbour on the Elbe here, and a brisk trade is carried on in coal, grain and timber.
Simultaneously a brisk border trade was springing up between the Greeks and the Magyars, and the Greek chapmen brought with them their religion as well as their wares.
Temesvar is the most important centre of commerce and industry of south Hungary, and carries on a brisk trade in grain, flour, spirits and horses.
The manufactures of the duchies, especially in the mountainous parts less favourable for agriculture, are tolerably brisk, but there is no large industrial centre in the country.
Vessels set out to the fisheries, as far as Spitsbergen and the Kara Sea; and trade is brisk, not only Norwegian and Danish but British, German and particularly Russian vessels engaging in it.
The industries include the spinning and weaving of cotton and wool, printing, dyeing and tanning, while there is a brisk trade in wine.
During the year there was a brisk war in the West Indies, and also in Catalonia, where the French maintained the ground won by Schomberg in the previous campaign.
Boat-building is also prosecuted, and a brisk transit trade is carried on in salt, grain and timber.
The chief manufactures of the town are linen goods, soap, malt, and agricultural implements, and a brisk trade is carried on in cattle, grain and geese.
Besides a silk mill, malthouses and engineering and agricultural implement works, there is a brisk trade in farm produce.
The leading industries include manufactures of woollens, flax and chemicals, and there is also a brisk trade in live-stock.
Manufactures are insignificant, but there is a brisk export trade in grain, salt, fish, wool and tallow.
Insect life is relatively not abundant; the air is brisk and bright with ample sunshine.
Of still more importance was the brisk commercial intercourse between central Asia and the countries of the Far East; for this led the Nestorians into China.
There is a brisk local trade in farm produce, and in the linen, hempen goods and pottery manufactured in Baza.
The class of tender annuals, being chiefly grown for greenhouse decoration, should be treated much the same as soft-wooded plants, being sown in spring, and grown on rapidly in brisk heat, near the glass, and finally hardened off to stand in the greenhouse when in flower.
Tobacco, leather, linen, carpets and war-material are manufactured in Agram, which also contains the works of the Hungarian state railways, and has a brisk trade in grain, wine, potash, honey, silk and porcelain.
The brisk diplomatic intercourse between the Great King and the Greek states in the 4th century may have produced effects that were not merely political.
Its manufactures are lace and linen and it has a brisk trade in live-stock, oil and wine.
They are increased by cuttings in spring, which when taken off with a heel strike freely in brisk heat.
The Jews, who are numerous, carry on a brisk trade in tobacco and grain exported to Galicia and Odessa.
Trade in these, and in horses, cattle and agricultural produce, is brisk.
New Ross has breweries and tan-yards, a salmon fishery, and a brisk export trade in agricultural produce.
Commerce is brisk, especially in raw products - corn, cattle, timber or wool.
We scampered over the rocks, inhaling the brisk sea air and later, we drove to Swampscott, to the north, and ate a pleasant sea food lunch.
A brisk nod, and Talal stepped away, waiting.
Slipping into a modest two-piece swimsuit with a full bottom part, she grabbed a towel and headed out at a brisk walk for the creek.