Sprightly

Definition: Sprightly

Sprightly

Adjective

1. Full of spirit and vitality; "a sprightly young girl"; "a sprightly dance".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "sprightly" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1050. (references)

Note: Sprightly \Spright"ly\, adjective. [Comparative Sprightlier; superlative Sprightliest.]. (references)

Synonym: Sprightly

Cheerfulness

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.

Wit

Adjective: witty, attic; quick-witted, nimble-witted; smart; jocular, jocose, humorous; facetious, waggish, whimsical; kidding, joking, puckish; playful; merry and wise; pleasant, sprightly, light, spirituel, sparkling, epigrammatic, full of point, ben trovato; comic.

Crosswords: Sprightly

Books

• From fingers to finger bowls; a sprightly history of California cooking (reference)

• Harvest of the years : four sprightly essays (reference)

  (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Hearken ye sprightly : an old New England hymn. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Beginning with "sprightly": sprightly-looking.

Albanian

qiqër nga mendtë, me gjallëri (briskly, expressively, lively, vivaciously, with vivacity), i gjallë (above ground, alive, animate, animated, breathing, brisk, buckish, buoyant, busy, canty, colorful, colourful, crude, dapper, dashing, dynamic, elastic, erect, fresh, frisky, glowing, graphic, graphical, green, humming, intense, jocund, keen, larky, live, lively, living, mercurial, nimble, noisy, perky, pert, picturesque, playful, poignant, quick, raw, red blooded, saucy, skittish, smart, snappy, spirited, spry, uncooked, vital, vivacious, vivid), i gëzuar (airy, blithe, blithesome, canty, cheerful, coltish, glad, Gladdening, gladsome, gleeful, happy, joyful, joyous, larky, lightsome, merry, mirthful, oared), gjallërisht (briskly, energetically, vitally, vividly, with vivacity), gjallë (alive, in the flesh, lively, living person). (various references)

Arabic 

‏مفعم بالحيوية (active, animate, animated, brisk, dynamic, energetic, full of energy, full of life, full of vigor, lively, lusty, peppy, spirited, vigorous, vital, vivacious, zippy), ‏مرح (airiness, airy, be merry, blithe, breezy, bright, buoyancy, buoyant, cheerful, cheerfulness, cheering, chirpy, exult, facetious, festive, fresh, frisk, frisky, frolic, frolicsome, fun, gaiety, gay, glee, gleeful, have fun, hilarious, hilarity, jaunty, jocose, jocosity, jocund, jolly, jovial, joviality, joy, joyful, joyfulness, joyous, kittenish, lark, light, lightsome, lively, make merry, merriment, merry, merry making, mirth, mirthful, perkiness, perky, playful, playfulness, playing, rejoice, rollick, romp, sportive, sunny, vivacious, vivacity, what fun, winsome), ‏نشيط (active, adroit, alert, athletic, dapper, driving, energetic, forceful, hustler, jaunty, live wire, lively, proud, robust, sharp, spirited, spry, stout, strenuous, vigorous, vivacious), ‏خفيف (agile, brisk, easy-moving, light, light footed, lively, nimble, quick, spry, swift). (various references)

Bulgarian 

весел (airy, blithe, blithesome, boisterous, bright, buoyant, canty, cheery, chirp, chirpy, colorful, colourful, coltish, convivial, daft, debonair, exhilarated, festal, gamesome, gay, genial, gladsome, gleeful, gleesome, good humoured, good-humored, high, humorous, jaunty, jocular, jocund, joky, jolly, jovial, joyful, joyous, light, light hearted, lightsome, lively, mellow, merry, mirthful, peppy, perky, rackety, roistering, rollicking, rorty, rosy, saucy, slaphappy, sparkish, sportive, sporty, swinging, upbeat, winsome), оживен (active, alive, animate, animated, brisk, bustling, crisp, effervescent, heated, hilarious, lively, racy, roaring, rousing, rush, spirited, stirring, thriving, vivacious), жив (above ground, active, agile, alert, alive, animate, breezy, brisk, cheerful, dashing, high-colored, high-coloured, jaunty, jazz, jazzy, live, lively, living, lusty, mercurial, mobile, nervous, nimble, organic, peppy, perky, pert, picturesque, pregnant, quick, racy, rattling, round, saucy, sharp, skittish, snappy, spicy, spirited, spry, swinging, vital, vivacious, vivid, volatile, warm, whippy, zappy, zippy). (various references)

Czech

křepký, hbitý (agile, deft, light-heeled, nimble, prompt, swift, voluble), živý (active, airy, alive, animated, bright, brisk, chirpy, clear, exhilarating, gay, heated, high-spirited, lifelike, live, lively, living, mercurial, perky, pleasant, quick, racy, vivacious, vivid), èilý (active, alert, brisk, forward, spirited, spry, swift). (various references)

Farsi 

چالاک (Adroit, Deft, Dexterous, Dextrous, Handy, Jimmy, Lissome, Natty, Nimble, Nippy, Pawky, Peppy, Prompt, Spry), سرزنده (Alive, Animate, Live, Lively, Snappy, Spirituous, Vivacious, Yare), خوشحال (Bouncy, Gay, Glad, Happy, Jolly, Merry, Wanton), شنگول (Sappy), بانشاط (Fresh, Racy, Unwearied, Vivacious). (various references)

Finnish

eloisa (animated, full of life, lively, vivacious, vivid). (various references)

French

vif (spirited, spry), actif. (various references)

German

schwungvoll (energetic, full of verve, jauntily, jaunty, lively, peppy, racy, rousing, snappily, sweeping, zestful, zestfully), rüstig (hale, lusty, spry), munter (adroit, agile, alert, awake, blithe, blithely, blithesome, breezy, bright, brisk, cheerful, frisky, gay, jauntily, jaunty, keen, lilting, liltingly, lively, merry, perkily, perky, playful, up, up and about, vivacious), leicht (easily, easy, effortless, effortlessly, facile, facilely, gentle, gossamerly, light, lighthearted, lightly, lightweight, loose, lower-level, mild, mildly, minor, nimbly, petty, readily, simple, slight, slightly, smooth, softly, thinly, unsubstantial), lebhaft (agile, animated, bouncy, breezy, brisk, briskly, chirpy, eager, feisty, fresh, frisky, gay, lively, mercurial, mobile, quick, quicksilver, spiritedly, vivace, vivacious, vivid, vividly). (various references)

Greek 

ζωηρόσ (bobbish, bouncing, breezy, brisk, buoyant, buxom, cheery, chipper, crisp, dapper, dashing, frisky, gay, grig, jaunty, lightsome, live, lively, lurid, mercurial, peppy, perky, poignant, quick, racy, rompish, smacking, smart, snappish, snappy, spanking, sparkish, spicy, spirited, spry, stirring, vibrant, vivacious, vivid, volatile, zippy), εύθυμοσ (blithe, chirpy, convivial, debonair, festive, frabjous, gay, happy go lucky, hilarious, jocund, jolly, jovial, joyous, light hearted, merry, mirthful, resilient, zippy). (various references)

Hebrew 

מלא חיים (graphic, live, lively, racy, snappy, spry, vibrant), עליז (blithe, cheerful, festal, frisky, frolic, frolicsome, gay, hilarious, jocose, jocund, jolly, joyful, light hearted, merry, mirthful, playful), ער� י (alert, aware, pert, vigilant, wakeful, watchful, wide awake). (various references)

Hungarian

vidám (amused, blithe, blithe as a lark, bobbish, cheerful, chirpy, comic, comical, daft, dashing, droll, exhilarated, felicitous, frisky, frolicsome, gay, glad, gladsome, gleeful, gleesome, hilarious, jaunty, jocose, jocular, jocund, jolly, jovial, joyful, joyous, light hearted, light-hearted, mellow, merry, mirthful, playful, rejoicing, rollicking, sunny, to be in high spirits), eleven (alive, animated, beany, bobbish, brisk, cheerful, kinetic, live, lively, living, mercurial, mettlesome, peart, perky, picturesque, racy of the soil, rattling, smart, spruce, to be full of beans, to feel one's oats, vivacious, vivid). (various references)

Italian

vivace (alive, animated, bright, brisk, buoyant, chirpy, colorful, colourful, dashing, frisky, gay, jaunty, lively, perky, quick, racy, skittish, spirited, spry, vibrant, vigorous, vivacious, vivid), vispo (lively), arzillo (alert, brisk, dapper, jaunty, lively, spry, tingling), allegro (allegro, blithe, blithesome, breezy, bright, buoyant, cheerful, cheery, frisky, frolicsome, gay, hilarious, jocular, jolly, jovial, joyful, laughing, light hearted, lightsome, lively, merry, mirthful, perky, sportive, sunny, wanton). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

溌剌たる (lively, vivid). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

はつらつたる (lively, vivid). (various references)

Manx

boiyr, annymoil (animated, boisterous, spirited, vivacious). (various references)

Pig Latin

ightlyspray.(various references)

Portuguese

vivo (above-ground, active, acute, adroit, agile, alert, alive, argute, bobbish, bouncing, brainy, breezy, bright, brisk, buoyant, chirpy, clear-sighted, clinking, coltish, cork, corky, crisp, dapper, diagram, fervent, frisky, gaudy, gay, graphic, graphical, hasty, hurry, intense, juicy, keen, kittenish, knowing, light, lightsome, live, lively, living, luminous, lusty, mercurial, mettled, mettlesome, nimble, nippy, parky, perky, pert, picturesque, poignant, quick, racy, rattling, resilient, shrewd, smart, spanking, speaking, spirited, spry, stirring, subtil, subtile, subtle, swift, swift-handed, vivacious, vivid, volatile, warm, watchful, zippy), jovial (blithe, blithesome, breezy, cant, canty, cheerful, convivial, debonair, gay, genial, jocular, joky, jolly, jovial, lively, mellow, merry, mirthful, rakish, resilient, rollicking, winsome), esperto (agile, astute, bobbish, brainy, bright, clever, cute, informed, ingenious, intelligent, knowing, live, politic, salted, sharp, shrewd, sly, smart, stirring, tricksy, watchful, wide-awake), desembaraçado (clear, clinking, disengaged, free, free and easy, resourceful, spanking, unashamed, unencumbered, untrammelled), animado (active, adroit, agile, alert, animate, cheerful, chirk, exhilarated, fleet, graphic, graphical, heartwarming, keen, lively, spirited, vivacious, warm, zippy), alegre (alive, blithe, blithesome, bonny, boon, breezy, brisk, buoyant, buxom, canty, cheerful, cheery, chirpy, coltish, convivial, corky, diverting, entertaining, exhilarated, festal, festive, frolicsome, gamesome, gay, glad, gladsome, gleeful, happy, hilarious, holiday, jaunty, jocular, jocund, jolly, jovial, joyful, joyous, jubilant, larksome, laughing, light, light-hearted, lightsome, lively, merry, mirthful, peart, resilient, slaphappy, sportful, sportive, tipsy, vivid, volatile, winsome). (various references)

Romanian

sprinţar (wanton), sãltãreţ (hopping, jaunty, skipping), zburdalnic (frisky, frolic, frolicsome, hoity toity, larky, sportive), viu (alive, animate, animated, breathing, bright, eager, eternal, forcible, fresh, glowing, green, high, hot stuff, intense, intensely, live, lively, living, natural, never-fading, poignant, rapid, rich, smart, strong, vivid, vividly), vioi (active, alert, animated, breezy, bright, brisk, briskly, cheery, chirpy, crisp, full of beans, gamy, hasty, hoity toity, lightsome, lithe, live, lively, living, mercurial, merry, mettlesome, nimble, nimbly, pleasant, quick-witted, racy, Randy, ready, smart, snappy, spirited, sportive, spry, vigorous, volatile), vesel (blithe, blithesome, boon, breezy, bright, cheerful, cheerfully, cheery, chirpy, convivial, crank, debonair, elastic, feastful, festal, frisky, frolic, frolicsome, full-blooded, gaily, gamesome, gay, genial, glad, gladsome, gleeful, happy, hilarious, in full feather, in high feather, jauntily, jaunty, jocund, jolly, jovial, joyful, joyfully, joyous, lively, mellow, merry, mirthful, playful, pleasant, riant, saucy, tails up, wanton), cu însufleţire, ştrengar (brat, rogue, romp, scamp, scapegrace, urchin), ştrengãreşte, animat (animated, pleasant, spirited), însufleţit (animated, hot, spirited, warm). (various references)

Russian 

веселый (blithe, blithesome, breezy, canty, cheerful, cheery, chirpy, convivial, corky, debonair, exhilarated, exhilarating, festive, frolic, gamesome, gay, gleeful, hilarious, jocund, jolly, jovial, joyful, joyous, light hearted, lightsome, lively, merry, mirthful, perky, playful, pleasant, set up, sportful, sportive), оживленный (animated, brisk, buoyant demand, busy, cheery, jolly, lively, much bucked, sparky, spirited, vibrant, vivacious), задорный (full of life, provocative), живой (alive, animate, bouncy, boyish, breathing, breezy, brisk, cheery, chipper, chirp, chirpy, crisp, dashing, hands-on, high-colored, high-coloured, jazzy, jocund, live, lively, living, lusty, nimble, oomph, peppy, poignant, quick, rip-roaring, roaring, scintillating, skittish, snappy, sparky, spirited, spry, vital, vivacious, vivid, zippy). (various references)

Scottish

iullag (a sprightly female). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

čio (corky, hale, hearty, lively, vivacious), živahan (abuzz, active, cheery, effervescent, live, mercurial, merry, perky, pert, spirited, vivacious). (various references)

Spanish

vivo (active, alive, animated, bright, facile, gay, hot, live, lively, living, quick, quickset, quicksilver, realist, realistic, rich, rousing, short, smart, vital, vivid), enérgico (active, bold, brisk, dashing, determined, emphatic, energetic, forceful, forcible, forthright, hearty, high pressure, hot, lively, positive, powerful, pushful, snappy, spirited, strenuous, strong, sturdy, telling, vigorous, vital, zippy), animado (alive, animate, animated, buoyed up, busy, cheerful, chipper, Chirk, chirpy, ebullient, enlivens, freshens, jazzy, lively, pert, upbeat, zippy). (various references)

Swedish

pigg (alert, bobbish, brisk, dapper, fresh, lively, peppy, pert, point, quill, sharp, smart, Spike, spirited, tag, tooth), munter (blithe, breezy, cheerful, cheery, frolic, frolicsome, gay, gleeful, gleesome, hilarious, jocose, jocund, jolly, merry, mirthful). (various references)

Thai

อย่างมีชีวิตชีวา, มีชีวิตชีวา (effervesce, kickin', scintillating, swinging). (various references)

Turkish

neşeyle (cheerfully, cheery, cock-a-hoop, gaily, genially, in high spirits, jauntily, merrily), neşeli biçimde, neşeli (airy, animate, animated, blithe, boon, breezy, bright, bucked, buoyant, buoyed up, cheerful, cheerfully, cheery, chirpy, cock-a-hoop, debonair, debonaire, easygoing, eupeptic, exhilarated, fit as a fiddle, full of beans, gamesome, gay, genial, gleeful, high, hilarious, jocund, jolly, jovial, joyful, joyous, lively, merry, merrymaking, mirthful, perky, rambunctious, rollicking, slaphappy, spirited, sportive, sunny, upbeat, vivacious), hayat dolu (alive, alive and kicking, animate, animated, as fresh as daisy, Corky, dewy, exuberant, fresh, full of life, genial, live, lively, quick, vital, vivacious, vivid), canlı biçimde, canlı (active, alive, animate, animated, beany, breezy, bright, brightly, brisk, bustling, colorful, colourful, Corky, crisp, crispy, dashing, dewy, driving, exhilarated, expressive, exuberant, feeling, fresh, full of beans, full of life, gay, genially, ginger, gingery, glowing, go-go, graphic, graphical, hearty, humming, in the flesh, inspired, life, live, lively, living, living being, living creature, lusty, mercurial, mettled, mettlesome, peppy, perky, picturesque, quick, racy, rich, rousing, sappy, saturated, smart, snappy, spirited, springy, swinging, vibrant, vital, vivacious, vivid, warm, with it, zippy), şen şakrak (gaily, jovial). (various references)

Ukrainian

жвавий (active, agile, airy, alert, alive, alive and kicking, animated, breezy, brisk, canty, chirpy, crisp, dashing, exhilarated, gleg, jaunty, live, living, mobile, nimble, peppy, perky, slippy, vivid, whisky, youthful, zippy), бадьорий (alive, alive and kicking, bobbish, cheerful, cheery, chipper). (various references)

Vietnamese 

vui vẻ hoạt bát, nhanh nhảu. (various references)

Welsh

nwyfus (lively, spirited). (various references)

Misspellings

"Sprightly" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Spratlys, spricht, sprighty, sprytly, S'right. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: triglyphs.

-1 letter: triglyph.

-2 letters: gristly, plights, rightly, sightly, spright.

-3 letters: girths, glyphs, grisly, griths, lights, lyrist, pigsty, plight, rights, righty, shirty, slight, spilth, stripy, thirls, thrips, thyrsi, trigly, triply, yirths.

-4 letters: gilts, gipsy, girls, girly, girsh, girth, girts, glyph, grips, gript, gripy, grist, grith, grits, hilts, light, piths, pithy, prigs, right, shily, shirt, sight, silty, slipt.

+2 letters: playwrights.

+3 letters: polygraphist, sprightfully.

+4 letters: polygraphists, stylographies.

+5 letters: playwrightings.