| 单词 | sprightly |
| 释义 | sprightly (once / 1693 pages) adj To be sprightly is to be full of youthful, vibrant energy. You don’t have to be young to be sprightly, though, energetic old people can be sprightly, too. Weeeeeee! The word sprightly comes from the word sprite, which is a small, elf-like fairy creature. If someone acts like a happy little fairy, has a lot of enthusiasm, and acts in a youthful way, she’s sprightly. To be sprightly is to be full of spirit and vitality, to be happy, and to have a positive attitude. Someone who radiates energy and positivity is sprightly. WORD FAMILYsprightly: sprightlier, sprightliest, sprightliness+/sprightliness: sprightlinesses USAGE EXAMPLESTolstoy’s fatalistic heroine aside, the small and sprightly McCauley usually played the cheerful ingenue. Washington Post(Dec 27, 2016) Because this is Bollywood, the training montages are accompanied by sprightly pop music, though not as choreographed song-and-dance numbers. New York Times(Dec 22, 2016) These exchanges, Beam writes, “were achingly serious and gloriously silly, catnip for editors who liked sprightly ‘knocking copy,’ as the British call disputatious texts.” Slate(Dec 20, 2016) adj full of spirit and vitality a sprightly young girl a sprightly dance Syn spirited displaying animation, vigor, or liveliness |
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