English > spirited: 4 senses > adjective 1| Meaning | Displaying animation, vigor, or liveliness. |
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| Attribute of | animation, spiritedness, invigoration, brio, vivification | Quality of being active or spirited / spirited / spirited or alive and vigorous / vigorous |
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| Narrower | boisterous, knockabout | Full of rough and exuberant animal spirits |
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| con brio | With liveliness or spirit |
| dashing, gallant | lively and spirited |
| ebullient, exuberant, high-spirited | joyously unrestrained |
| feisty, plucky, spunky | showing courage |
| impertinent, irreverent, pert, saucy | Characterized by a lightly pert and exuberant quality |
| lively, racy | Full of zest or vigor |
| mettlesome | Having a proud and unbroken spirit |
| resilient | Recovering readily from adversity, depression / depression, or the like |
| snappy, whipping | smart and fashionable |
| sprightly | Full of spirit and vitality |
| vibrant, vivacious | Vigorous and animated |
| zestful, yeasty, zesty, barmy | marked by spirited enjoyment |
| See also | energetic | possessing or exerting or displaying energy |
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| enthusiastic | Having or showing great excitement / excitement and interest |
| lively | full of life and energy |
| Opposite | spiritless | lacking ardor or vigor or energy |
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| Spanish | animado |
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| Nouns | spiritedness | quality of being active or spirited / spirited / spirited or alive and vigorous / vigorous |
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| Adverbs | spiritedly | in a spirited / spirited / spirited or lively manner |
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