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high-spirited

[ hahy-spir-i-tid ]

adjective

  1. characterized by energetic enthusiasm, elation, vivacity, etc.
  2. boldly courageous; mettlesome.


high-spirited

adjective

  1. vivacious, bold, or lively


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Derived Forms

  • ˌhigh-ˈspiritedly, adverb
  • ˌhigh-ˈspiritedness, noun

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Other Words From

  • high-spirit·ed·ly adjective
  • high-spirit·ed·ness noun

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Word History and Origins

Origin of high-spirited1

First recorded in 1625–35

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Example Sentences

Then again, this is not the high-spirited Mary we met in Season 1—indeed, none of the Crawleys are the same.

Back in the dark days of the Great Depression, Hollywood pumped out brilliant, inspiring, high-spirited films.

My mother said he was high-spirited and that probably got him killed there.

There, Nim met Bob Ingersoll, a high-spirited University of Oklahoma student who worked at the facility.

Winifred, naturally a high-spirited and lively girl, soon recovered from the fright of that fateful Sunday evening.

The energetic, the daring, the high-spirited go, leaving the residue more abject and nerveless than ever.

He would kill them both, high-spirited horses like those, they said, if he took them over that road.

She was a strong-souled, high-spirited girl, but tonight hope seemed extinguished in her breast.

The high-spirited girl had no idea of being thus disposed of in the matrimonial bazaar.

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