brio.

Lively energy and confident spirit in action or performance.

Use it for

Words that belong together

• perform with brio
• full of brio

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The violinist attacked the final passage with brio.

She recounted the escape with more brio than accuracy.

Usage notes

Primary category: literary. Forms: Uncountable; no ordinary plural. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.