Lively
Lively adjective - Having much high-spirited energy and movement.
Ongoing and lively are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Ongoing" instead an adjective "Lively".
Nearby Words: liveliness, liven
Ongoing
Ongoing adjective - Being in progress or development.
Both words in one sentence
- These small, local, lowdown cabals of crooked merchants are a vital, ongoing, many-layered (as in "You shouldn't have just one at a time") part of the "home" Forgotten Realms campaign, and in many, many lively, long-running D&D campaigns set in any world.
Source: Cloak & Dagger
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Ongoing and Lively. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 21, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/lively/ongoing
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