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Definition: Alacrity |
AlacrityNoun1. Liveliness and eagerness; "he accepted with alacrity". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "alacrity" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1593. (references) |
Etymology: Alacrity \A*lac"ri*ty\, noun. [Latin expression alacritas, from alacer lively, eager, probably akin to Greek to drive, Gothic aljan zeal.]. (Websters 1913) |
Synonym: AlacritySynonym: briskness (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Activity | Nimbleness, agility; smartness, quickness; Adjective: velocity; alacrity, promptitude; despatch, dispatch; expedition; haste; punctuality; (early). |
Cheerfulness | Liveliness; Adjective: life, alacrity, vivacity, animation, allegresse; jocundity, joviality, jollity; levity; jocularity; (wit). |
Unwillingness | Noun: unwillingness; Adjective: indisposition, indisposedness; disinclination, aversation; nolleity, nolition; renitence, renitency; reluctance; indifference; backwardness; Adjective: slowness; want of alacrity,want of readiness; indocility; (obstinacy). |
Willingness | Geniality, cordiality; goodwill; alacrity, readiness, earnestness, forwardness; eagerness; (desire). |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Alacrity |
| English words defined with "alacrity": Alacriously, Alacriousness. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "alacrity": Alacriousness. (references) |
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
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 | Photographed by her builders, Pusey & Jones of Wilmington, Delaware, circa 1910. This craft was leased by the Navy on 28 April 1917 and commissioned on 30 May 1917 as USS Alacrity (SP-206). She was returned to her owner on 28 April 1919. Credit: NAVY. |  | General view from the end of the pier, taken by Alton M. Blackinton, Boston, circa 1918. USS Moosehead (ID # 2047) occupies most of the image. Beyond her stern is USS Alacrity (SP-206). Credit: NAVY. |
 | Section Patrol boat base at Lockwood's Basin, circa 1918, with USS Moosehead (ID # 2047) alongside the pier in the right background. Among the patrol boats present are USS Skink (SP-605), in the left foreground, and USS Alacrity (SP-206) behind her. Note Sailor sentry at the extreme right. Photographed by Alton M. Blackinton, Boston. Credit: NAVY. |  | In Lockwood's Basin, Boston, Massachusetts, circa 1918, with an old torpedo boat (probably USS Rodgers, Torpedo Boat # 4) alongside. USS Elsie III (SP-708) is alongside the pier in the left center foreground, with USS Alacrity (SP-206) beyond. Photographed by Alton M. Blackinton, Boston. This image forms the left half of a panorama with Photo # NH 45268. Credit: NAVY. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| Title | Author | Quote |
Emma | Austen, Jane | Emma was rather in dismay when only half a minute afterwards he began to speak of other things, and in a voice of the greatest alacrity and enjoyment. |
King Richard III | Shakespeare, William | I have not that alacrity of spirit Nor cheer of mind that I was wont to have. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
Martin van Buren | 1837-1841 | The cost of two wars has been paid, not only without a murmur, but with unequaled alacrity. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Alacrity" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 96.63% of the time. "Alacrity" is used about 89 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 96.63% | 86 | 35,638 |
| Noun (proper) | 3.37% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Total | 100.00% | 89 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Country | Name |
| South Africa | Alacrity Financial Services Limited |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
alacrity | 28 |
alacrity care health | 10 |
alacrity staffing | 10 |
alacrity housing | 4 |
alacrity care health staffing | 3 |
alacrity internet | 3 |
alacrity boat sail | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "alacrity"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Afrikaans | geesdrif (enthusiasm), besieling (enthusiasm, inspiration), begerigheid (avidity, covetousness, eagerness, greediness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | zell (diligence, flame, industry, promptitude, strenuousness, zeal), gjallëri (activity, alertness, animation, brio, briskness, dynamism, ebullience, ebulliency, effervescence, effervescency, friskiness, ginger, life, liveliness, lustiness, mercuriality, pep, pepper, sprightliness, verdure, verve, vitality, vivacity, volatility, zest). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | مبتهج (blithe, breezy, bright, buoyant, carefree, cheerful, cheery, debonair, delighted, delightful, elate, elated, exultant, gay, glad, gleeful, happy, high-spirited, jolly, joyful, joyous, jubilant, mellow, merry, mirthful, overjoyed, palmy, rejoicing, upbeat), نشاط (action, activity, bang, bounce, energy, forcefulness, ginger, go, kick, lift, liveliness, mettle, momentum, movement, pep, promptitude, prosperity, pursuit, spirit, spunk, stir, strenuousness, tuck, verve, vigor, vigour, vim, virility, zip), سرعة (blast, career, despatch, dispatch, expedition, gait, haste, hastiness, hurry, lick, pace, pizzazz, promptitude, promptness, quickness, rapidity, smartness, speed, spurt, swiftness, tilt, velocity), خفة (adroitness, dexterity, flightiness, knack, levity, lightness, sleight of hand, temerity), رشاقة (agility, deftness, fluency, fluidity, gracefulness, graciousness, lightness, liveliness, nimbleness, quickness, readiness, sleight of hand, swiftness, thinness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | усърдие (ardour, assiduity, assiduousness, diligence, hardness, impressment, industry, mettle, pains, painstaking, sedulity, zeal), радостна готовност, готовност (avidity, eagerness, forwardness, goodwill, preparedness, readiness, trim, willingness), пъргавина (activity, alertness, deftness, quickness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | ochota (goodwill, promptitude, promptness, readiness, willingness), horlivost (assiduity, eagerness, heat, painstaking, solicitude, zeal), hbitost (agility), èilost (activity, alertness, briskness, jauntiness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | begejstring (enthusiasm). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | uitbundigheid (abundance, enthusiasm), graagte (appetite, avidity, covetousness, eagerness, greediness), geestdrift (enthusiasm, verve, vivacity), enthousiasme (enthusiasm), begerigheid (avidity, covetousness, eagerness, greediness), begeerte (avidity, covetousness, desire, eagerness, greediness, want, wish). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Faeroese | eldhugi (enthusiasm). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | چابکی (Activity, Agility, Dexterity), نشاط (Esprit, Hilarity, Jazz, Merriment, Mirth, Spree, Vivacity). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | innostus (enthusiasm, interest, verve, vivacity). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | avidité, alacrité, activité, promptitude, enthousiasme, empressement. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Bereitwilligkeit (eagerness, promptness, willingness), Eifer (Ardor, ardour, assiduousness, assiduousnesses, eagerness, enthusiasm, fervour, heat, intentness, keenness, mettle, studiousness, zeal, zealotry, zealousness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | γρηγοράδα (celerity, swiftness), προθυμία (eagerness, forwardness, gameness, neighborliness, neighbourliness, promptitude, promptness, readiness, towardness, willingness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | כו ות (accuracy, correctness, preparedness, readness, truth, willingness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | fürgeség (agility, briskness, deftness, dexterity, expedition, nimbleness, snap, swiftness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | entusiasmo (ardor, ardour, enthusiasm, gusto, rapturousness, zest). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 敏活 (quickness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | び"かつ (quickness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | laueys (elbow grease, industry, industry speed, skilfulness), arryltys (readiness, willingness), arryltid (agreeableness, readiness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | alacrityay entuzjazm (enthusiasm). (various references) avidez (avidity, covetousness, eagerness, greediness, thirst), atividade (action, activeness, activity, ado, agency, busyness, drive, game, go-ahead, hustle, industry, liveliness, operation, quickness, work, works), vida (enthusiasm, existence, life, life-span, living, pulse, raciness, subsistence, vitality, vivacity, world), furor (craze, enthusiasm, furor, furore, fury, hit, rage), espontaneidade (spontaneity), entusiasmo (ebullience, ebulliency, enthusiasm, excitement, flare-up, glow, intoxication, verve, warmth, zeal, zealotry, zest), cobiça (avidity, covetousness, greediness, longing, yen). (various references) agerime (discernment, edge, perspicacity, quickness, sharpness, subtlety, wit), vioiciune (alertness, briskness, buoyancy, fizz, fling, go, hoity toity, jazz, life, liveliness, perkiness, pertness, quickness, snap, sprightliness, vivacity), viaţã (animation, being, biography, career, cheerfulness, day, existence, life, living, pepper, reality, spirit, sprightliness, vitality). (various references) готовность (preparedness, readiness, trimness, willingness), живость (agility, aliveness, animation, brio, briskness, liveliness, mercuriality, pep, pepper, rejuvenescent, spryness, vivacity, zest). (various references) sùrd (eager exertion, industry), gleusdachd (expertness, readiness). (various references) pripravnost (readiness, standby), živahnost (animation, briskness, effervescence, effervescency, liveliness, mercuriality, vivaciousness, vivacity). (various references) alacridad, prontitud (despatch, dispatch, promptitude, promptness, quickness, rapidity, rapidness, readiness, speed, speeding, velocity), diligencia (coach, demarche, diligence, sedulity, stagecoach). (various references) beredvillighet (forwardness, readiness, willingness). (various references) xevk (enthusiasm, fervour, zeal), istek (adjuration, appetite, aspiration, avidity, bent, claim, demand, desire, device, devoutness, disposition, earnestness, enthusiasm, grace, hunger, instance, intentness, mind, pleasure, propensity, readiness, relish, request, requirement, requisition, stomach, studiousness, suit, urge, want, will, wish, zeal), heves (ambition, anxiety, Ardor, ardour, brio, cult, desire, eagerness, enthusiasm, fad, fancy, fit, freak, furor, furore, grace, inclination, itch, keenness, maggot, nine days' wonder, notion, relish, stomach, studiousness, whim, whimsey, whimsy, zeal), canlılık (animation, bounce, brightness, brio, buoyancy, color, colour, crispness, dynamics, elan, exhilaration, friskiness, ginger, life, liveliness, lustiness, perkiness, quickness, raciness, richness, saturation, spiritedness, sprightliness, stamina, stir, verve, vivacity, vividness), can atma (anxiety, aspiration, eagerness, itch, longing, readiness). (various references) старанність (accuracy, application, assiduity, diligence, elaboration, exactness, goodwill, heartiness, impressment, nicety, painstaking, particularity, sedulity, thoroughness), готовність (forwardness, preparation, preparedness, promptitude, readiness, willingness), жвавість (agility, alertness, animation, liveliness, mercuriality, nimbleness, oomph, quickness, sparkle, starch, tightness, verve, vigor, vigour, vivacity). (various references) sự sốt sắng sự hoạt bát, sự nhanh nhẩu (agility). (various references) parodrwydd (readiness, willingness), bywiogrwydd (animation). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"Alacrity" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: aclarity, alacarity, alacrety, alactrity, alacuity, alarcity, alarcrity, allacrity, elacrity. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "alacrity" (pronounced ula"krutē) |
| 5 | -k r u t ē | mediocrity. |
| 4 | -r u t ē | austerity, authority, barbarity, celebrity, charity, clarity, dexterity, disparity, dissimilarity, familiarity, hilarity, immaturity, impurity, inferiority, insecurity, insularity, integrity, irregularity, majority, maturity, minority, obscurity, parity, particularity, peculiarity, polarity, popularity, posterity, priority, prosperity, purity, rarity, regularity, security, seniority, severity, similarity, sincerity, solidarity, sorority, superiority, supermajority, surety, temerity, unfamiliarity, unpopularity, Verity, vulgarity. |
| 3 | -u t ē | ability, abnormality, absurdity, acceptability, accessibility, accountability, acidity, activity, actuality, acuity, adaptability, admissibility, adversity, advisability, affinity, affordability, aggressivity, agility, alkalinity, ambiguity, amenity, amiability, amity, analyticity, animosity, annuity, anonymity, antiquity, anxiety, applicability, atrocity, audacity, authenticity, availability, banality, believability, bestiality, biodiversity, bisexuality, brevity, brutality, calamity, capability, capacity, captivity, causality, cavity, centrality, chastity, civility, collegiality, commodity, commonality, community, comparability, compatibility, complexity, complicity, comprehensibility, conditionality, conductivity, confidentiality, conformity, congeniality, congruity, connectivity, constitutionality, continuity, convertibility, creativity, credibility, credulity, criminality, criticality, crotchety, culpability, curiosity, cyclicality, debility, deductibility, deformity, deity, deniability, density, dependability, depravity, deputy, desirability, dignity, dimensionality, disability, discontinuity, disunity, diversity, divinity, docility, domesticity, duality, ductility, duplicity, durability, eccentricity, elasticity, electability, electricity, eligibility, enforceability, enmity, enormity, entity, equality, equanimity, equity, eternity, ethnicity, eventuality, exclusivity, expressivity, extraterritoriality, extremity, facility, fallibility, falsity, fatality, feasibility, Felicity, femininity, ferocity, fertility, festivity, fidelity, finality, flammability, flexibility, fluidity, formality, fragility, fraternity, frivolity, frugality, functionality, futility, generality, generosity, geniality, gentility, gratuity, gravity, gullibility, heredity, heterogeneity, heterosexuality, homogeneity, homosexuality, hospitality, hostility, humanity, humidity, humility, hyperactivity, hypersensitivity, identity, illegality, illiquidity, immobility, immorality, immortality, immunity, impartiality, impersonality, impossibility, impropriety, impunity, inability, inaccessibility, inactivity, incapacity, incivility, incompatibility, incongruity, incredulity, indemnity, indestructibility, indignity, individuality, inequality, inequity, inevitability, infallibility, infertility, infidelity, infinity, infirmity, inflexibility, informality, ingenuity, inhumanity, insanity, insensitivity, instability, instrumentality, intensity, invincibility, invisibility, invulnerability, irrationality, irresponsibility, irritability, laity, laxity, legality, legibility, lethality, levity, liability, liberality, liquidity, lividity, locality, longevity, malleability, maneuverability, marketability, masculinity, materiality, maternity, mendacity, mentality, miscibility, mobility, modality, modernity, monstrosity, morality, morbidity, mortality, motility, multiplicity, municipality, musicality, mutuality, nationality, nativity, necessity, negativity, neutrality, nobility, Nonconformity, nonentity, nonutility, normality, notoriety, nudity, obesity, objectivity, obscenity, oddity, opacity, opportunity, originality, overcapacity, oversensitivity, palatability, partiality, passivity, paternity, paucity, permeability, perpetuity, perplexity, personality, perversity, piety, plausibility, plurality, polity, pomposity, portability, possibility, practicality, predictability, principality, probability, probity, proclivity, productivity, profanity, profitability, progressivity, promiscuity, propensity, proportionality, propriety, proximity, publicity, punctuality, quality, quantity, radioactivity, rapidity, rationality, reactivity, readability, reality, receptivity, reciprocity, reflexivity, relativity, reliability, religiosity, respectability, responsibility, retroactivity, rickety, rigidity, salinity, sanctity, sanity, scarcity, seasonality, selectivity, senility, sensibility, sensitivity, sensuality, sentimentality, serendipity, serenity, sexuality, simplicity, sobriety, society, solemnity, solidity, speciality, specificity, spirituality, spontaneity, stability, sterility, stupidity, subjectivity, suitability, superconductivity, superfluidity, survivability, susceptibility, sustainability, technicality, tenacity, theatricality, timidity, tonality, totality, toxicity, tranquility, transferability, Trinity, triviality, turbidity, ubiquity, unanimity, unavailability, uniformity, unity, universality, university, unpredictability, unreality, unreliability, uppity, utility, validity, vanity, variability, variety, varsity, velocity, velvety, venality, veracity, versatility, viability, vicinity, virginity, virility, virtuosity, viscosity, visibility, vitality, volatility, voracity, vulnerability. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-c-i-l-r-t-y" | |
-1 letter: clarity, lactary. | |
-2 letters: artily, atrial, citral, lariat, latria, racial, racily, rictal. | |
-3 letters: acari, alary, aliya, altar, artal, atria, carat, clary, craal, laari, laity, lyart, lyric, lytic, ratal, riata, riyal, talar, tiara, tical, trail, triac, trial. | |
-4 letters: acta, acyl, airt, airy, alar, alit, aria, aril, arty, aryl, carl, cart, city, clay, clit, lacy, laic, lair. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-c-i-l-r-t-y" | |
+1 letter: aliteracy, carnality, paralytic, rascality. | |
+2 letters: arctically, articulacy, capitulary, charitably, paralytics, tragically, tyrannical. | |
+3 letters: actuarially, applicatory, artiodactyl, bacterially, capillarity, cardinality, clairvoyant, coplanarity, drastically, erratically, farcicality, frantically, intercalary, intractably, oracularity, parfocality, piratically, practicably, practically, satirically, tracklaying, triadically, vascularity. | |
+4 letters: acrostically, aoristically, archetypical, aromatically, articulately, articulatory, artificially, artiodactyls, artistically, asymmetrical, attractively, avascularity, avuncularity, clairvoyants, dramatically, facilitatory, fractionally, hieratically, inaccurately, inarticulacy, microanalyst, narcotically, operatically, oratorically, particularly, practicality, quasicrystal, romantically, theatrically, thoracically, traceability, tracklayings, tractability, tyrannically, uncharitably. | |
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