look lively

Meanings

verblook lively (third-person singular simple present looks lively, present participle looking lively, simple past and past participle looked lively)

present singular third person looks lively · participle present looking lively · participle past looked lively · past looked lively

imperativeSynonym of look alive.
The train was well filled, with quite an amount of intermediate business; but station staff and passengers alike seemed ready enough to "look lively", and the result was a general "slickness" in working that augers^([sic]) well for the future.
1959 June 28, O. S. Nock, “British Locomotive Practice and Performance”, in Railway Magazine, page 408
Synonyms: look alive

verbSynonym of look alive.

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