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Zestfully

adv.joyful, energeticwarm

What it means

With lively enjoyment and engaged energy.

Reach for it when describing an action performed with visible pleasure and vigor

The children zestfully decorated the hall for the concert.

Choose between these

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  • playful

    with gusto

    when vigorous enjoyment should sound informal

    not when With gusto is more boisterous and can make careful work sound noisy.

  • everyday

    eagerly

    when readiness and anticipation matter

    not when Eagerly focuses on beginning and may not last through the task.

  • everyday

    enthusiastically

    when eager positive participation is the main point

    not when Enthusiastically can describe loud approval without enjoyment of the work itself.

  • warm

    spiritedly

    when lively feeling or courage drives the action

    not when Spiritedly can sound combative and is less clearly joyful.

  • professional

    energetically

    when active force and pace are observable

    not when Energy can be dutiful or frantic rather than zestful.

  • literary

    vivaciously

    when animated personal charm is central

    not when Vivaciously is rare and can sound juvenile in dignified praise.

Said against

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  • listlessly
  • apathetically
  • halfheartedly

It naturally appears in

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  • zestfully performed

    The folk suite was zestfully performed with crisp rhythms.

  • zestfully embraced

    The class zestfully embraced the experiment but recorded every failure.

  • zestfully decorated

    The hall was zestfully decorated with repaired fabric banners.

The word family

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Where this comes from

Six alternatives were retained because additional adverbs merely repeated energy or enthusiasm.

The definition and the example on this page are written here. The dictionaries above ground which meaning is being described, not the wording.