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SPRIGHTLY

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

Irregular inflected forms: sprightlier    , sprightliest   

 I. (adjective) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Full of spirit and vitality

Example:

a sprightly dance

Classified under:

Adjectives

Similar:

spirited (displaying animation, vigor, or liveliness)

Derivation:

sprightliness (animation and energy in action or expression)

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 Context examples: 

With them also were the pick of the Gascon chivalry—the old Duc d'Armagnac, his nephew Lord d'Albret, brooding and scowling over his wrongs, the giant Oliver de Clisson, the Captal de Buch, pink of knighthood, the sprightly Sir Perducas d'Albret, the red-bearded Lord d'Esparre, and a long train of needy and grasping border nobles, with long pedigrees and short purses, who had come down from their hill-side strongholds, all hungering for the spoils and the ransoms of Spain.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)