brio
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 6
- Words With Friends
- 7
- Letters
- 4
/ˈbɹiːoʊ/
Definition of brio
1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included
noun
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(uncountable)Vigour or vivacity.
“He lay tossing restlessly on a dirty old straw palliasse, and was in great pain; but greeted his friend with a dash of the old brio.”
“And as if to undermine their authority still further, Welsh Philpott in his innocence has made the error of placing Rick beside the pulpit in the very spot from which in the past he has read us the day's lesson with such brio and persuasion.”
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Etymology
From Italian brio (“finesse, talent”), from Spanish brío, ultimately from Proto-Celtic *brīgos.
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