sprightly
Animated, gay, or vivaciousAnimated, gay, or vivacious; lively, spirited.
» This old guy is still sprightly.
Meaning
4 sensesAnimated, gay, or vivacious; lively, spirited.
spritzig, flott
Of a person: full of life and vigour, especially with a light and springy step.
Of a person: full of life and vigour, especially with a light and springy step.
Especially of an older person: energetic and in good health; spry.
(obsolete, rare)Of or relating to a sprite; ghostly, spectral.
- full of spirit and vitality
Examples
3 sentencesThis old guy is still sprightly.
Our best player is a real sprightly fellow.
My grandad has very painful knees, but he's still really sprightly.
deMein Großvater hat starke Knieschmerzen, dennoch ist er äußerst rüstig.
Translations
4 languagesBy meaning 1
Origin
From spright + -ly (suffix forming adjectives with the sense ‘behaving like, having the naFrom spright + -ly (suffix forming adjectives with the sense ‘behaving like, having the nature of’). Spright is an obsolete variant of sprite (“a shade, spirit; elf, fairy, goblin; apparition, ghost”), from Middle English sprit (“principle of life; soul, especially at the point of death; immaterial being (angel, demon, apparition, ghost, etc.); divine inspiration; Holy Spirit; the mind, intellect, reason; mental faculties, senses; power of prophecy; character, disposition; courage, resolution; mood, state of mind; human will; breath; (alchemy) volatile substance”) [and other forms], from Anglo-Norman esprite, esprit and Middle French esprit, variants of Anglo-Norman, Middle French, Old French espirit, esperit (“spirit”), from Latin spīritus (“air; breath; breathing; ghost, spirit”), from spīrō (“to breathe; to breathe out, exhale”) (from Proto-Indo-European *(s)peys- (“to blow; to breathe”)) + -tus (“suffix forming verbal nouns from verbs”).
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Forms
sprightlier, sprightliest| Comparative | sprightlier Lesson |
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| Superlative | sprightliest Lesson |
regular
Synonyms
7 synonymsAntonyms
1 antonymsWord family
6 related wordsLessons for this word
2 lessons- A2Comparatives — Because it has a comparative form
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