Synonyms of livening (up)

livening (up)

verb

present participle of liven (up)

as in stimulating

to give life, vigor, or spirit to

the bandleader tried to liven up the party by playing more energetic music so people would dance

Synonyms & Similar Words

• stimulating
• zipping (up)
• jazzing (up)
• pepping (up)
• amping (up)
• gingering (up)
• stirring
• arousing
• waking (up)
• juicing up
• animating
• awakening
• enlivening
• exciting
• energizing
• invigorating
• electrifying
• provoking
• driving
• quickening
• vitalizing
• cheering
• vivifying
• activating
• bracing
• spiking
• filliping
• inspiring
• lifting
• whipping (up)
• triggering
• firing
• reviving
• jump-starting
• recreating
• motivating
• strengthening
• propelling
• awaking
• setting off
• sparking
• rousing
• raising
• turning on
• boosting
• charging
• rallying
• motiving
• moving
• actuating
• refreshing
• resurrecting
• impelling
• galvanizing
• renewing
• kindling
• inciting
• buoying
• fermenting
• abetting
• fomenting
• enflaming
• infusing
• restimulating
• enkindling
• instigating
• inflaming
• reawakening
• regenerating
• reinvigorating
• emboldening
• revitalizing
• rekindling
• rejuvenating
• heartening
• reactivating
• fortifying
• recharging
• reenergizing
• resuscitating
• reanimating
• steeling
• reawaking
• re-energizing
• refreshening

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• doing in
• wearing out
• burning out
• knocking out
• killing
• damping
• washing out
• wearing
• deadening
• dampening
• dulling
• undermining
• exhausting
• draining
• weakening
• harassing
• debilitating
• enervating
• sapping
• checking
• wearying
• fatiguing
• slowing
• tuckering (out)
• curbing
• restraining
• inhibiting
• quenching
• suppressing
• stunting
• repressing
• kayoing
• enfeebling
• quelling
• stilling
• daunting
• discouraging
• fagging
• disheartening
• demoralizing
• jading
• dispiriting