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live wire

noun

Synonyms and Antonyms of live wire

1 a very energetic person

the babysitter will have her hands full with those two little live wires

Synonyms of live wire

dynamo, fireball, pistol

Words Related to live wire

bootstrapper, go-ahead, go-getter, highflier (or highflyer), hummer, hustler, powerhouse, rustler, self-starter

achiever, comer, dasher

doer, enterpriser

Near Antonyms of live wire

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

2 an ambitious person who eagerly goes after what is desired

that new reporter on the police beat is a real live wire

Synonyms of live wire

bootstrapper, go-ahead, go-getter, highflier (or highflyer), hummer, hustler, powerhouse, rustler, self-starter

Words Related to live wire

achiever, comer, doer, enterpriser

he-man, individualist

Near Antonyms of live wire

dawdler, idler, loafer, lounger, putterer, trifler

goldbrick, malingerer, procrastinator, shirker, slacker

drone, lazybones, sluggard

dallier, laggard, lingerer, loiterer, slowpoke, stick-in-the-mud

ignorer, ne'er-do-well, neglecter

daydreamer, dreamer

dropout, quitter

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