English noun: sprightliness |
1. | sprightliness (attribute) animation and energy in action or expression |
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| Samples | It was a heavy play and the actors tried in vain to give life to it.
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| Synonyms | life, liveliness, spirit |
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| Broader (hypernym) | animation, brio, invigoration, spiritedness, vivification |
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| Narrower (hyponym) | airiness, alacrity, breeziness, briskness, buoyancy, delicacy, ebullience, elan, energy, enthusiasm, esprit, exuberance, ginger, high-spiritedness, irrepressibility, jauntiness, muscularity, pep, peppiness, pertness, smartness, vigor, vigour, vim |
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| Attribute | lively |
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