This old guy is still sprightly.
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Sprightly
//ˈspɹaɪtli//
Synonyms for "sprightly" (133 found)
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2 entriesTranslations
47 translations across 14 languages.
Arabic
2 entries- دَجِر adj (animated, gay, or vivacious — see also lively)
- دَجِر adj (of a person: full of life and vigour)
Bulgarian
4 entries- весел adj (animated, gay, or vivacious — see also lively)
- енергичен adj (of a person: full of life and vigour)
- енергичен adj (especially of an older person: energetic and in good health)
- жив adj (of a person: full of life and vigour)
Czech
4 entries- čilý adj (animated, gay, or vivacious — see also lively)
- čilý adj (of a person: full of life and vigour)
- čilý adj (especially of an older person: energetic and in good health)
- čiperný adj (of a person: full of life and vigour)
French
3 entries- animé adj (animated, gay, or vivacious — see also lively)
- vif adj (of a person: full of life and vigour)
- vigoureusement adv (in a lively and vigorous way)
German
2 entries- flott adj (animated, gay, or vivacious — see also lively)
- spritzig adj (animated, gay, or vivacious — see also lively)
Irish
4 entries- beoga adj (animated, gay, or vivacious — see also lively)
- beoga adj (of a person: full of life and vigour)
- breabhsánta adj (animated, gay, or vivacious — see also lively)
- breabhsánta adj (of a person: full of life and vigour)
Italian
2 entries- vivace adj (of a person: full of life and vigour)
- vigorosamente adv (in a lively and vigorous way)
Kyrgyz
1 entries- тың adj (of a person: full of life and vigour)
Latin
1 entries- vegetus adj (animated, gay, or vivacious — see also lively)
Latvian
4 entries- možs adj (animated, gay, or vivacious — see also lively)
- mundrs adj (animated, gay, or vivacious — see also lively)
- spirgts adj (animated, gay, or vivacious — see also lively)
- ņiprs adj (animated, gay, or vivacious — see also lively)
Māori
2 entries- ngangahu adj (of a person: full of life and vigour)
- ngākau hihiko adj (animated, gay, or vivacious — see also lively)
Ottoman Turkish
2 entries- دینج adj (animated, gay, or vivacious — see also lively)
- دینج adj (of a person: full of life and vigour)
Serbo-Croatian
4 entries- čio adj (animated, gay, or vivacious — see also lively)
- čio adj (of a person: full of life and vigour)
- čio adj (of a person: full of life and vigour)
- čio adj (especially of an older person: energetic and in good health)
Spanish
1 entries- vigoroso adj (of a person: full of life and vigour)
Sample sentences
12 total sentences available.
And bathed in sunshine stood the chief, endowed / with shape and features most divinely bright. / For graceful tresses and the purple light / of youth did Venus in her child unfold, / and sprightly lustre breathed upon his sight, / beauteous as ivory, or when artists mould / silver or Parian stone, enchased in yellow gold.
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My grandad has very painful knees, but he's still really sprightly.
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Sprightly little goatherds, whose heads are the heads of fauns, and whose half naked and ruddy bodies are often clad in skins, ramble over the precipitous hills with nimble herds able to crop a living from mere stone-piles; and the fauns, Pan-like, pipe to their goats strains Theocritus might have loved.
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