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Definition: SPRIGHT |
SPRIGHTNoun1. A kind of short arrow. 2. A supernatural being; a spirit; a shade; an apparition; a ghost. 3. Spirit; mind; soul; state of mind; mood. Transitive verb1. To haunt, as a spright. |
Date "SPRIGHT" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references) |
Note: Spright \Spright\, noun. [See Sprite.]. (references) |
| Language | Translations for "SPRIGHT"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Russian | призрак (bogeyman, ghost, illusion, phantasm 1, phantom, shadow, shape, specter, spectre, wraith). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "SPRIGHT": sprightful, sprightfully, sprightfulness, sprightfulnesses, sprightlier, sprightliest, sprightliness, sprightlinesses, sprightly, sprights. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words ending with "ight": Bight, flight, Night, Pight, Smight, Wright. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "g-h-i-p-r-s-t" | |
-1 letter: girths, griths, rights, thrips. | |
-2 letters: girsh, girth, girts, grips, gript, grist, grith, grits, piths, prigs, right, shirt, sight, spirt, sprig, sprit, stirp, strip, thrip, trigs, trips. | |
-3 letters: ghis, gips, girt, gist, gits, grip, grit, hips, hist, hits, phis, pigs, pish, pith, pits, prig, rigs, rips, ship, shri, sigh, sith, spit, stir, thir, this. | |
| Words containing the letters "g-h-i-p-r-s-t" | |
+1 letter: sprights, uprights. | |
+2 letters: graphites, plighters, sprightly, triglyphs, trigraphs. | |
+3 letters: copyrights, droplights, shipwright, sprightful, superlight, supertight, tightropes. | |
+4 letters: epigraphist, geostrophic, graphitizes, groupthinks, hotpressing, hypogastric, lithographs, pharyngitis, pictographs, playwrights, prizefights, prognathism, shipwrights, sprightlier, superbright, triphthongs, uprightness, upthrusting. | |
+5 letters: autographies, epigraphists, graphologist, lamplighters, morphologist, nephrologist, paperweights, phrenologist, polygraphist, prognathisms, scintigraphy, sportfishing, sprightfully, sprightliest, stenographic, straphanging, stratigraphy, superheating, telegraphies, telegraphist, thoroughpins, tomographies, topographies, transhipping, transshaping, trapshooting, trothplights, typographies, upholstering. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
| 1. Definition 2. Translations: Modern 3. Derivations 4. Rhymes | 5. Anagrams 6. Bibliography |
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