Another word for pertness
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Noun
A lively, emphatic, eager quality or manner
- Spirited vigor:
- Physical or sexual attractiveness.
- The quality of being peppy.
- Energy and high spirits; vim:
- To bring energy or liveliness to; invigorate:
- A plant (Zingiber officinale) of tropical Southeast Asia having yellowish-green flowers and a pungent aromatic rhizome.
- The rhizome of this plant, used as a spice either fresh or in dried and powdered form.
- Any of several related plants having variously colored, often fragrant flowers.
- A brief sharp hissing sound.
- Energy; vim:
- A zipper.
- The quality or condition of being vivacious; liveliness:
- Liveliness or energy; enthusiasm.
- Physical or mental strength, energy, or force:
- The capacity for natural growth and survival, as of plants or animals.
- Strong feeling; enthusiasm or intensity:
- Energy and enthusiasm in the expression of ideas, especially in artistic performance or composition:
- Vitality; liveliness.
- Literary aptitude or talent.
- A force or principle believed to animate living beings.
- A force or principle believed to animate humans and often to endure after departing from the body of a person at death; the soul.
- The Holy Spirit.
- To give off sparks.
- To give off or reflect flashes of light; glitter:
- To be reflected in small flashes of light:
- The property or quality that distinguishes living organisms from dead organisms and inanimate matter, manifested in functions such as metabolism, growth, reproduction, and response to stimuli or adaptation to the environment originating from within the organism.
- The characteristic state or condition of a living organism.
- Living organisms considered as a group:
- Liveliness of mind or spirit; wittiness or sprightliness.
- To move with haste; rush:
- To strike violently; smash:
- To break or smash by striking violently:
- Vigor; vivacity:
- To rebound after having struck an object or a surface.
- To move jerkily; bump:
- To bound:
- The act, process, or result of imparting life, interest, spirit, motion, or activity.
- The quality or condition of being alive, active, spirited, or vigorous.
- The art or process of making movies with drawings, computer graphics, or photographs of static objects, including all techniques other than the continuous filming of live-action images.
See also:The state or quality of being impudent or arrogantly self-confident
- Alternative form of uppitiness.
- The state, or an instance, of being uppish.
- A flavorful seasoning or relish served as an accompaniment to food, especially a liquid dressing or topping for food.
- Stewed fruit, usually served with other foods.
- Something that adds zest, flavor, or piquancy.
- The hard outer portion or surface area of bread.
- A piece of bread consisting mostly of the hard outer portion.
- A piece of bread that has become hard and dry.
- A yellowish alloy of copper and zinc, sometimes including small amounts of other metals, but usually 67 percent copper and 33 percent zinc.
- Ornaments, objects, or utensils made of this alloy.
- The section of a band or an orchestra composed of brass instruments.
- the property of being saucy
- an instance of saucy behavior
- The quality of being sassy.
- The property of being rude.
- A rude remark or behaviour.
- The quality of being pushy
- The state of being presumptuous.
- An excessive degree of confidence
- The characteristic of being nervy.
- Any of the cordlike bundles of fibers made up of neurons through which sensory stimuli and motor impulses pass between the brain or other parts of the central nervous system and the eyes, glands, muscles, and other parts of the body. Nerves form a network of pathways for conducting information throughout the body.
- The sensitive tissue in the pulp of a tooth.
- A sore point or sensitive subject:
- The quality or condition of being uncivil.
- An uncivil or discourteous act.
- (now rare) Impudence.
- The quality of being offensively bold.
- Offensively bold behavior.
- Insolence.
- Irrelevance.
- An impertinent act or statement.
- Outrageous insolence; effrontery:
- Bitterness of feeling; rancor.
- Something bitter to endure:
- The quality of being forward.
- Acquaintance with or knowledge of something:
- The quality of being known from past experience:
- Established friendship or intimacy:
- The surface of the front of the head from the top of the forehead to the base of the chin and from ear to ear.
- A person:
- A person's countenance:
- Brazen boldness; presumptuousness.
- Lack of respect, esteem, or courteous regard.
- To show a lack of respect for:
- Lack of courtesy; rudeness.
- A rude act or statement.
- Utter nerve; effrontery:
- The state of being cheeky
- The fleshy part of either side of the face below the eye and between the nose and ear.
- Something resembling the cheek in shape or position.
- Either of the buttocks.
- The characteristic of being brazen.
- The characteristic of being brash.
- Fearless daring; intrepidity.
- Bold or insolent heedlessness of restraints, as of those imposed by prudence, propriety, or convention.
- An act or instance of intrepidity or insolent heedlessness:
- The act of taking to or upon oneself:
- The act of taking possession or asserting a claim:
- The act of taking for granted:
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Another word for pertness
Noun
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- Fearless daring; intrepidity.
- Bold or insolent heedlessness of restraints, as of those imposed by prudence, propriety, or convention.
- An act or instance of intrepidity or insolent heedlessness:
- The state or quality of being arrogant; overbearing pride.
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