verve

The word “verve” has 1 syllable: verve

It's pronounced as /vɜːrv/


What is synonym and antonym for verve?

In the thesaurus, “verve” has 82 synonyms and 35 antonyms.

Here are synonyms and antonyms for verve along with examples of usage in sentences.


Synonyms for verve

  • activity
  • animal spirits
  • animation
  • ardor
  • beans
  • bounce
  • brawniness
  • brio
  • briskness
  • dash
  • drive
  • dynamism
  • endurance
  • energy
  • esprit
  • fervor
  • fire
  • fitness
  • force
  • forcefulness
  • gas
  • get-up-and-go
  • ginger
  • go
  • gumption
  • gusto
  • hardihood
  • hardiness
  • health
  • healthiness
  • huskiness
  • intensity
  • jauntiness
  • juice
  • life
  • liveliness
  • main
  • metal
  • mettle
  • might
  • moxie
  • muscle
  • oomph
  • passion
  • pep
  • pizazz
  • pluck
  • potency
  • power
  • puissance
  • punch
  • sap
  • snap
  • snappiness
  • soundness
  • sparkle
  • spirit
  • spiritedness
  • sprightliness
  • spunk
  • spunkiness
  • stamina
  • starch
  • steam
  • strength
  • sturdiness
  • toughness
  • verdure
  • vibrance
  • vibrancy
  • vigor
  • vim
  • vinegar
  • virility
  • vitality
  • vivaciousness
  • vivacity
  • wellness
  • zeal
  • zest
  • zing
  • zip

Antonyms for verve

  • apathy
  • cowardice
  • debilitation
  • debility
  • delicacy
  • disablement
  • dullness
  • enervation
  • enfeeblement
  • exhaustion
  • faintness
  • feebleness
  • frailness
  • frailty
  • idleness
  • impotence
  • impotency
  • inactivity
  • inanition
  • incompetence
  • indifference
  • indolence
  • infirmity
  • laziness
  • lethargy
  • listlessness
  • powerlessness
  • prostration
  • puniness
  • slightness
  • sluggishness
  • softness
  • tenderness
  • torpidity
  • weakness

Meanings of verve

  • noun
    1. Excitement of imagination such as that which animates a poet, artist, or musician, in composing or performing.
    2. Artistic energy and enthusiasm.
    3. Vigour, vitality and liveliness.
    4. Rapture, enthusiasm.
    5. Spirit, energy.

Example Sentences

  • She delivered her speech with great verve and confidence.
  • The artist painted the scene with remarkable verve and energy.
  • His performance lacked the usual verve that made him famous.
  • The novel is written with such verve that it's hard to put down.
  • They danced with youthful verve at the festival.

On this page you'll find 117 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to verve, such as: activity, animal spirits, animation, apathy, ardor, beans, bounce.

Make sure to choose synonyms and antonyms that are appropriate for the context of the sentence.

Related Words

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  • abash
  • accelerate
  • afflict
  • agitate
  • ail
  • animal spirits
  • animation
  • ardor
  • arrow
  • baffle
  • balk
  • barrel
  • bathe
  • beans
  • beat
  • beat it
  • beeline
  • beetle
  • belt
  • bespatter
  • bilk
  • birr
  • bit
  • blast
  • blaze
  • blight
  • blow
  • bludgeon
  • boil
  • bolt
  • bomb
  • bother
  • bounce
  • bound
  • bowl
  • brawniness
  • breeze
  • brio
  • briskness
  • buck
  • bundle
  • burden
  • bustle
  • buzz
  • cannonball
  • canter
  • careen
  • career
  • cast
  • catapult
  • catch up
  • chagrin
  • charge
  • chase
  • chill
  • chuck
  • circumvent
  • cloud
  • concern
  • confound
  • course
  • crash
  • cudgel
  • dabble
  • dampen
  • dart
  • daunt
  • deject
  • demoralize
  • depress
  • destroy
  • disappoint
  • discomfort
  • discompose
  • discourage
  • dishearten
  • dismay
  • dispirit
  • disquiet
  • distress
  • disturb
  • douse
  • dowse
  • drench
  • drive
  • drop
  • drown
  • dynamism
  • eject
  • energy
  • esprit
  • exercise
  • fast-forward
  • fervor
  • few drops
  • fire
  • fitness
  • flavor
  • fling
  • flip
  • flit
  • flourish
  • fly
  • foil
  • force
  • gallop
  • gas
  • get a move on
  • get down
  • get on it
  • get-up-and-go
  • ginger
  • go
  • grain
  • gun
  • gusto
  • hardihood
  • hardiness
  • hare
  • haste
  • hasten
  • health
  • healthiness
  • heave
  • hie
  • highball
  • hint
  • hit
  • hook
  • hump
  • hurl
  • hurry
  • hurtle
  • huskiness
  • hustle
  • impel
  • impregnate
  • impressiveness
  • intensity
  • jauntiness
  • jet
  • jog
  • juice
  • jump
  • lap
  • lash
  • launch
  • leap
  • let fly
  • lick
  • life
  • little
  • liveliness
  • lob
  • loft
  • lope
  • lunge
  • main
  • make a run for it
  • make it snappy
  • make tracks
  • metal
  • mettle
  • might
  • motor
  • moxie
  • muscle
  • nip
  • onset
  • oomph
  • oppress
  • outpace
  • outrun
  • outstrip
  • overtake
  • panache
  • part
  • pass
  • passion
  • patter
  • peg
  • pelt
  • pep
  • perturb
  • pinch
  • pitch
  • plash
  • plunge
  • potency
  • power
  • precipitate
  • project
  • propel
  • puissance
  • punch
  • quicken
  • race
  • ram
  • rifle
  • rip
  • rocket
  • roll
  • ruin
  • run
  • rush
  • rush at
  • rustle
  • sadden
  • sap
  • saturate
  • scamper
  • scattering
  • scoot
  • scud
  • scuffle
  • scurry
  • scuttle
  • seasoning
  • shag
  • shake a leg
  • shatter
  • shiver
  • shoot
  • skip
  • slam
  • sling
  • slop
  • slosh
  • slush
  • smack
  • smash
  • smidgen
  • snap
  • snappiness
  • soak
  • sop
  • sortie
  • soundness
  • souse
  • spatter
  • speed
  • spirit
  • spiritedness
  • splash
  • splatter
  • splinter
  • spoil
  • spray
  • sprightliness
  • spring
  • sprinkle
  • sprinkling
  • sprint
  • spritz
  • spunk
  • spunkiness
  • spurt
  • squirt
  • stamina
  • stampede
  • starch
  • steep
  • step
  • step on it
  • step out
  • streak
  • strength
  • sturdiness
  • suspicion
  • swash
  • taste
  • tear
  • throw
  • thrust
  • thwart
  • tincture
  • tinge
  • torment
  • torture
  • toss
  • touch
  • trace
  • travel
  • trifle
  • trip
  • trot
  • trouble
  • undo
  • unhinge
  • unnerve
  • unsettle
  • upset
  • vehemence
  • verdure
  • verve
  • vibrance
  • vibrancy
  • vigor
  • vim
  • vinegar
  • virility
  • vitality
  • vivaciousness
  • vivacity
  • wash
  • water
  • weigh down
  • wellness
  • whirl
  • whisk
  • whiz
  • whizz
  • worry
  • zeal
  • zest
  • zing
  • zip
  • zoom

ebullience

  • agitation
  • ambition
  • animation
  • beans
  • bounce
  • brightness
  • brio
  • briskness
  • buoyancy
  • cheer
  • cheerfulness
  • chirpiness
  • dash
  • drive
  • dynamism
  • eagerness
  • ebulliency
  • effervescence
  • effusiveness
  • elation
  • energy
  • enthusiasm
  • esprit
  • excitement
  • exhilaration
  • exuberance
  • exuberancy
  • ferment
  • friskiness
  • gaiety
  • gas
  • get-up-and-go
  • ginger
  • go
  • gusto
  • hardihood
  • high spirits
  • high-spiritedness
  • impishness
  • jauntiness
  • jazziness
  • juice
  • keenness
  • life
  • liveliness
  • lustiness
  • moxie
  • oomph
  • pep
  • peppiness
  • pertness
  • pizazz
  • pizzazz
  • playfulness
  • punch
  • robustness
  • sap
  • snap
  • sparkle
  • spirit
  • spiritedness
  • sprightliness
  • springiness
  • starch
  • verve
  • vibrance
  • vibrancy
  • vigor
  • vigorousness
  • vim
  • vinegar
  • vitality
  • vivaciousness
  • vivacity
  • zest
  • zing
  • zip

ebulliency

  • ambition
  • animation
  • beans
  • bounce
  • brightness
  • brio
  • briskness
  • buoyancy
  • cheer
  • cheerfulness
  • chirpiness
  • dash
  • drive
  • dynamism
  • eagerness
  • ebullience
  • effervescence
  • effusiveness
  • energy
  • enthusiasm
  • esprit
  • exuberance
  • friskiness
  • gas
  • get-up-and-go
  • ginger
  • go
  • gusto
  • hardihood
  • impishness
  • jauntiness
  • jazziness
  • juice
  • keenness
  • life
  • liveliness
  • lustiness
  • moxie
  • oomph
  • pep
  • peppiness
  • pertness
  • pizazz
  • pizzazz
  • playfulness
  • punch
  • robustness
  • sap
  • snap
  • sparkle
  • spirit
  • spiritedness
  • sprightliness
  • springiness
  • starch
  • verve
  • vibrance
  • vibrancy
  • vigor
  • vigorousness
  • vim
  • vinegar
  • vitality
  • vivaciousness
  • vivacity
  • yeastiness
  • zest
  • zing
  • zip

effervescence

  • animation
  • brightness
  • briskness
  • bubbles
  • bubbling
  • buoyancy
  • cheer
  • cheerfulness
  • chirpiness
  • eagerness
  • ebullience
  • ebulliency
  • ebullition
  • enthusiasm
  • excitedness
  • excitement
  • exhilaration
  • exuberance
  • exuberancy
  • ferment
  • fermentation
  • friskiness
  • froth
  • frothing
  • gaiety
  • happiness
  • high spirits
  • impishness
  • jauntiness
  • jazziness
  • joy
  • keenness
  • liveliness
  • lustiness
  • peppiness
  • pertness
  • pizazz
  • pizzazz
  • playfulness
  • robustness
  • sparkle
  • spirit
  • spiritedness
  • sprightliness
  • springiness
  • verve
  • vibrance
  • vibrancy
  • vigorousness
  • vim
  • vitality
  • vivaciousness
  • vivacity
  • volatility
  • zing

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