brisk
/bɹɪsk/ adjectif C1En français : animé, vif, stimulant
- Full of liveliness and activity; characterized by quickness of motion or action. · We took a brisk walk yesterday.
- Full of spirit of life; effervescing.
- Stimulating or invigorating. · This morning was a brisk fall day. It wasn't cold enough for frost, but you wanted to keep moving.
- Abrupt, curt in one's manner or in relation to others. · The service in that restaurant was brisk and impersonal.
Comparatif brisker · Superlatif briskest
Dans la bibliothèque
“The five-thirty train has been in and gone half an hour ago,” answered that brisk official.
But this freckled witch was very different, and although he found it rather difficult for his slower intelligence to keep up with her brisk mental processes he thought that he “kind of liked her chatter.” So he said as shyly as usual:
“City life does not agree with me at all,” remarked the Lion, as they walked along at a brisk pace.
In half an hour we had reached Pitt Street, a quiet little backwater just beside one of the briskest currents of London life.
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