This old guy is still sprightly.
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Sprightly
/ˈspɹaɪtli/
Synonyms for "sprightly" (161 found)
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Related words (80)
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Adjective(17 words)
Noun(4 words)
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13 entriesCollocations
10 entriessprightly demeanorsprightly gaitsprightly mannersprightly moodsprightly performancesprightly personalitysprightly stepsprightly temposprightly tonesprightly wit
Inflections
2 entriesDerivations
2 entriessimilar
1 entriesTranslations
16 translations across 11 languages.
Arabic
1 entries- دَجِر adj (of a person: full of life and vigour)
Bulgarian
2 entries- енергичен adj (of a person: full of life and vigour)
- жив adj (of a person: full of life and vigour)
Czech
2 entries- čilý adj (of a person: full of life and vigour)
- čiperný adj (of a person: full of life and vigour)
French
1 entries- vif adj (of a person: full of life and vigour)
Irish
3 entries- beoga adj (of a person: full of life and vigour)
- breabhsánta adj (of a person: full of life and vigour)
- éirimiúil adj (of a person: full of life and vigour)
Italian
1 entries- vivace adj (of a person: full of life and vigour)
Kyrgyz
1 entries- тың adj (of a person: full of life and vigour)
Māori
1 entries- ngangahu adj (of a person: full of life and vigour)
Ottoman Turkish
1 entries- دینج adj (of a person: full of life and vigour)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- čio adj (of a person: full of life and vigour)
- živahan adj (of a person: full of life and vigour)
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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