Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: vitality
IPA transcription: [vaɪt'æləti]
noun meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: vitality, verve
    Meaning: an energetic style
  • Synonyms: energy, vim, vitality
    Meaning: a healthy capacity for vigorous activity; "jogging works off my excess energy"; "he seemed full of vim and vigor"
Usage examples
  • She was sixteen, and was possessed of terrible vitality.
  • Smolny thrilled with the boundless vitality of inexhaustible humanity in action.
  • Nonviolence is essential to these people--they have vitality without needing destruction.
  • By noon the next day, his fine vitality, which so fitted him for an Arctic expedition, had re-asserted itself.
  • One and all, the faces of men and women seemed bereft of vitality, of interest, of thought, and, most of all, of hope.
  • I do it; but no one can tell the effort, it costs me. What a contrast there is between their vitality and the languor under which I suffer!
  • A death-blow is a life-blow to some Who, till they died, did not alive become; Who, had they lived, had died, but when They died, vitality begun.
  • His quickness of decision and amazing vitality Dorothy found bewildering, accustomed as she was to the more methodical procedure of a Government department.
  • The whole Korin school, as it is generally designated, is an expression of Teaism. In the broad lines of this school we seem to find the vitality of nature herself.
  • "Henry,"--her voice had changed to one more natural, also her manner. The confidence expressed in this outburst, the vitality, the masculine attitude he took were producing their effect.