sprightly

Meaning

Adj

1. Animated, gay, or vivacious; lively, spirited.
2. Of a person: full of life and vigour, especially with a light and springy step.
3. Of a person: full of life and vigour, especially with a light and springy step.
4. (obsolete, rare) Of or relating to a sprite; ghostly, spectral.

Adv

In a lively and vigorous way; sprightlily.

Opposite of

melancholy

Synonyms

lively

vivacious

brisk

spry

active

vigorous

perky

alert

adroit

sprited

keen

with animation

buoyant

energetic

alive

gay

cheerful

animated

nimble

animatedly

agile

jaunty

jocund

jolly

jovial

joyous

lighthearted

light-hearted

lithe

lurid

merry

mirthful

observing

pert

poignant

quickly

resilient

saucy

sharp

smart

spirited

spryly

vibrating

vigorously

vivid

waspish

wide-awake

zesty

zippy

happy go lucky

Translations

vif

munter

lebhaft

animado

vivo

vivaz

opgewekt

actif

kwiek

levendig

frisch

animado

viu

vigorós

espavilat

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈspɹaɪtli/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: sprit

In summary

From spright + -ly (suffix forming adjectives with the sense ‘behaving like, having the nature of’). Spright is an obsolete variant of sprite (“a shade, spirit; elf, fairy, goblin; apparition, ghost”), from Middle English sprit (“principle of life; soul, especially at the point of death; immaterial being (angel, demon, apparition, ghost, etc.); divine inspiration; Holy Spirit; the mind, intellect, reason; mental faculties, senses; power of prophecy; character, disposition; courage, resolution; mood, state of mind; human will; breath; (alchemy) volatile substance”) [and other forms], from Anglo-Norman esprite, esprit and Middle French esprit, variants of Anglo-Norman, Middle French, Old French espirit, esperit (“spirit”), from Latin spīritus (“air; breath; breathing; ghost, spirit”), from spīrō (“to breathe; to breathe out, exhale”) (from Proto-Indo-European *(s)peys- (“to blow; to breathe”)) + -tus (“suffix forming verbal nouns from verbs”).