Verve

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɜː(r)v

Origin

From French verve ("rapture, animation, spirit, caprice, whim")

Full definition 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
• 2012, April 9, Mandeep Sanghera, Tottenham 1 - 2 Norwich, After spending so much of the season looking upwards, the swashbuckling style and swagger of early season Spurs was replaced by uncertainty and frustration against a Norwich side who had the quality and verve to take advantage
4. rapture, enthusiasm
5. spirit, energy
• Wodehouse Offing|XII|Normally, this girl presents to the world the appearance of one who is feeling that if it isn't the best of all possible worlds, it's quite good enough to be going on with till a better one comes along. Verve, I mean, and animation and all that sort of thing. But now there was a listlessness about her ...