live wire

live wire

noun

Definition of LIVE WIRE

: an alert, active, or aggressive person

— live–wire adjective

Examples of LIVE WIRE

1. She's a real live wire.
2. <the babysitter will have her hands full with those two little live wires>

First Known Use of LIVE WIRE

1903

Related to LIVE WIRE

Synonyms

dynamo, fireball, pistol

Related Words

bootstrapper, go-ahead, go-getter, highflier (or highflyer), hummer, hustler, powerhouse, rustler, self-starter; achiever, comer, dasher; doer, enterpriser

Near Antonyms

dawdler, idler, loafer, lounger, trifler; clock-watcher, goldbrick, shirker, slacker; couch potato, deadbeat, do-nothing, drone, layabout, lazybones, slouch, slug, slugabed, sluggard; dallier, laggard, lingerer, loiterer, slowpoke, stick-in-the-mud

Rhymes with LIVE WIRE

attire, backfire, bemire, catch fire, cross fire, denier, desire, entire, for hire, fox fire, Greek fire, grey friar, hang fire, hellfire, on fire, prior, rimfire, sapphire, sea fire, snow tire, town crier, trip wire, umpire, watch fire, white friar