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発音

• IPA: /bɹɪsk/
• 韻: -ɪsk

形容詞

brisk (comparative brisker or more brisk, superlative briskest or most brisk)

1. Full of liveliness and activity; characterized by quickness of motion or action.

   Synonyms: lively, spirited, quick

   We took a brisk walk yesterday.

   • 1918, Norman Lindsay, The Magic Pudding, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 10:

     On such occasions he would remark--
     "Shaving may add an air that's somewhat brisker,
     For dignity, commend me to the whisker."

   • 2012 December 29, Paul Doyle, “Arsenal's Theo Walcott hits hat-trick in thrilling victory over Newcastle”, in The Guardian‎:

     Ba, who has been linked with a January move to Arsenal, should have rewarded their brisk start with the opening goal in the 16th minute.

2. Full of spirit of life; effervescing.
3. (archaic) Sparkling; fizzy.

   brisk cider

4. Stimulating or invigorating.

   This morning was a brisk fall day. It wasn't cold enough for frost, but you wanted to keep moving.

   • 1896, A. E. Housman, “Terence, this is stupid stuff”, in A Shropshire Lad:

     Why, if 'tis dancing you would be, / There's brisker pipes than poetry.

5. Abrupt, curt in one's manner or in relation to others.
   • 1919, W[illiam] Somerset Maugham, “chapter 15”, in The Moon and Sixpence, [New York, N.Y.]: Grosset & Dunlap Publishers […], →OCLC:

     Her manner was brisk, and her good-breeding scarcely concealed her conviction that if you were not a soldier you might as well be a counter-jumper.

派生語

参考

• brusque

動詞

brisk (third-person singular simple present brisks, present participle brisking, simple past and past participle brisked)

1. (ambitransitive, often with "up") To make or become lively; to enliven; to animate.

Further reading

• “brisk”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “brisk”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• “brisk”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

アナグラム

• Birks, birks