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Definition: High Spirits |
High SpiritsNoun1. A feeling of joy and pride. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonym: High SpiritsSynonym: elation (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Cheerfulness | Noun: cheerfulness; Adjective: geniality, gayety, l'allegro, cheer, good humor, spirits; high spirits, animal spirits, flow of spirits; glee, high glee, light heart; sunshine of the mind, sunshine of the breast; gaiete de coeur, bon naturel. |
Adjective: cheerful; happy; cheery, cheerly; of good cheer, smiling; blithe; in spirits, in good spirits; breezy, bully, chipper; in high spirits, in high feather; happy as the day is long, happy as a king; gay as a lark; allegro; debonair; light, lightsome, light hearted; buoyant, debonnaire, bright, free and easy, airy; janty, jaunty, canty; hedonic; riant; sprightly, sprightful; spry; spirited, spiritful; lively, animated, vivacious; brisk as a bee; sparkling, sportive; full of play, full of spirit; all alive. | |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: High Spirits |
| English words defined with "high spirits": bubbling, bubbly ♦ effervescent, elate, elated ♦ intoxicate ♦ lift up ♦ pick up, playful ♦ scintillating, sparkling, sparkly ♦ To be in high feather ♦ unexpansive, uplift ♦ vivacity. (references) |
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Movie/TV Titles | High Spirits (1927) | |
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| Author | Quotation |
Arthur Schopenhauer | In early life, as we contemplate our coming life, we are like children in a theater before the curtain is raised, sitting there in high spirits and eagerly wating for the play to begin. |
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Expressions using "high spirits": be in high spirits ♦ in high spirits. Additional references. | |
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| 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 |
high spirits | 22 |
high spirits movie | 4 |
flutes high spirits | 4 |
brewery high spirits | 3 |
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| Language | Translations for "high spirits"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | qejf (amusement, ball, bang, binge, delight, desire, humor, humour, luxury, pleasure, temper, zest). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | مزاج عال, روح معنوية عالية. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 高昂 (elation, in high spirits), 興高採烈 (in great delight, in high spirits). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | odvaha (boldness, courage, daring, doughtiness, grit, guts, mettle, nerve, spirit, spunk, valor, valour), nadšení (Ardor, ardour, enthusiasm, passion, thrill, zeal, zest), elán (Ardor, ardour, bounce, buoyancy, drive, eagerness, elan, enthusiasm, guts, pep, spirit, verve, vim, vivacity, zest), dobrá nálada (good humour). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | hilpeällä mielellä (in a gay mood, in high spirits), ilakoida (be in high spirits, frolic, make merry). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | vivacité, plein d'entrain. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | übermut (devilment, light-headedness, skittishness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | μερακλωμένοσ (in high spirits). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | מצב רוח מרומם (exuberance, good humor, lift). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | lelkesedés (ardor, ardour, eagerness, enthusiasm, exaltation, infatuation, rave, verve, warmth, zeal, zest), jókedv (animal spirits, cheerfulness, chirpiness, exhilaration, flow of spirits, fun, gaiety, gayness, good humor, good humour, hilarity, humor, humour, jollity, joy, let off, merriness, mirth, pleasantry, vivacity), bátorság (audaciousness, audacity, boldness, bravado, bravery, courage, dutch courage, fearlessness, fortitude, gallantry, heroism, manhood, nerve, pluck, prowess, spunk, valor, valour). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 高調 , 鋭気 (ardour, courage), 衝天 , 気炎 (big talking). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | しょうて" (business firm, death, focus, my little shop, point, shop, the Ascension), きえ" (abandonment, big talking, chance, donation, opportunity, strange coincidence), "うちょう (bird of passage, blush, favourable, flood tide, flush, hard tone, headmaster, high tide, in good shape, migratory bird, nightingale, offices of a public or governmental organization, principal, promising, satisfactory, surge), えいき (ardour, courage, excellent talent, phases of moon, waxing and waning). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ighhay iritsspay veselie (animation, blitheness, blithesomeness, cheerfulness, conviviality, exultation, feast, festival, festivity, fiskiness, fling, gaiety, gale, geniality, gladness, great spirits, hilarity, jamboree, jauntiness, jocoseness, jocundity, jollification, jollity, joviality, joy, jubilation, merriment, merriness, merry making, mirth, rejoicing, rejoicings), antren (briskness, great spirits, liveliness). (various references) приподнятое настроение (elation, ginger, pizzazz). (various references) dobro raspoloženje (gaiety). (various references) optimismo (buoyancy, hopefulness, optimism), ánimo elevado. (various references) uppsluppenhet (hilarity, jollity). (various references) keyif (bliss, cheer, conviviality, delight, enchantment, exhilaration, glee, humor, humour, joviality, joy, Kef, pleasure, rejoicing, temper). (various references) бути в піднесеному настрої (be in high spirits). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "g-h-h-i-i-i-p-r-s-s-t" | |
-3 letters: phthisis, sprights. | |
-4 letters: spirits, spright, tigrish. | |
-5 letters: girths, grists, griths, hights, iritis, rights, rishis, shirts, sights, spirit, spirts, sprigs, sprits, stirps, strips, thighs, thrips. | |
| Words containing the letters "g-h-h-i-i-i-p-r-s-s-t" | |
+5 letters: historiographies. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Quotations: Familiar 7. Expressions 8. Expressions: Internet | 9. Translations: Modern 10. Anagrams 11. Bibliography |
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