OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 10480

verve

/vɜːv/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
denuedo • energía • fogosidad • nervio • verba
Enthusiasm, rapture, spirit, or vigour, especially of imagination such as that which animates an artist, musician, or writer, in composing or performing.
His hands were strong and elegant; his experience of life evidently varied; his speech full of pith and verve; his manners forward, but perfectly presentable.
They played through vacation to the fashionable of eight cities. […] Chicago he approved for a certain verve that transcended its loud accent—however, it was a Yale town, and as th…
Phrases
Word forms
No hay formas