Thesaurus / sprightly
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Look to the 102 if you favor stability at cruising speeds over a sprightly feel.
RUNNERS-UP REVIEW: THESE POWDER SKIS ALMOST MADE OUR 2022 WINTER BUYER’S GUIDEAGINTZLERJANUARY 9, 2022OUTSIDE ONLINEThe star is a sprightly 50 to 125 million years old and can offer a glimpse of what the sun might have looked like billions of years ago.
SCIENTISTS JUST SPOTTED A MASSIVE STORM FROM A SUN-LIKE STARKATE BAGGALEYDECEMBER 10, 2021POPULAR-SCIENCEWide rides aren’t usually sprightly, but the latest addition to Burton’s unisex Family Tree line defies convention.
RUNNER-UP REVIEW: THE SNOWBOARDS THAT ALMOST MADE OUR 2022 WINTER BUYER’S GUIDEAGINTZLEROCTOBER 26, 2021OUTSIDE ONLINEOlder mouse livers demonstrate a similarly sprightly cellular turnover.
HAS THE FOUNTAIN OF YOUTH BEEN IN OUR BLOOD ALL ALONG?KAT MCGOWANSEPTEMBER 28, 2021POPULAR-SCIENCEThe steeper headtube angle also creates a more sprightly ride.
THE GEAR OUR EDITORS LOVED IN JUNETHE EDITORSJULY 2, 2021OUTSIDE ONLINEBy this new species of shorthand we might have embodied this very article in half a dozen sprightly etchings!
BLACKWOOD'S EDINBURGH MAGAZINE, NO. CCCXXXIX. JANUARY, 1844. VOL. LV.VARIOUSHe was the prince of travelling companions, always gay and sprightly, and spoke French with great fluency.
FIFTY YEARS OF RAILWAY LIFE IN ENGLAND, SCOTLAND AND IRELANDJOSEPH TATLOWThe fond parent made the sprightly and fascinating child his daily companion.
MADAME ROLAND, MAKERS OF HISTORYJOHN S. C. ABBOTTAye, but I danced like a fairy, an' there was not another couple so sprightly an' handsome in all the country.
FIFTY CONTEMPORARY ONE-ACT PLAYSVARIOUSHe seemed to intimate that he understood all that was passing in her mind, and was not balked by sprightly appearances.
THE DAUGHTERS OF DANAUSMONA CAIRDWORDS RELATED TO SPRIGHTLY
- active
- alert
- blooming
- bouncing
- bright
- bright-eyed
- bushy-tailed
- chipper
- clear
- creamy
- dewy
- fair
- florid
- glowing
- good
- hardy
- invigorated
- keen
- like new
- lively
- refreshed
- rehabilitated
- relaxed
- relieved
- rested
- restored
- revived
- rosy
- ruddy
- sprightly
- spry
- stimulated
- undimmed
- unfaded
- unused
- unwearied
- unwithered
- verdant
- vigorous
- vital
- wholesome
- young
- antic
- blithe
- cheerful
- coltish
- comical
- elvish
- feeling one's oats
- flirtatious
- frisky
- frolicsome
- full of pep
- gamesome
- gay
- good-natured
- impish
- jaunty
- jesting
- jocund
- joking
- joyous
- lighthearted
- lively
- merry
- mirthful
- mischievous
- prankish
- puckish
- rollicking
- snappy
- spirited
- sportive
- sprightly
- teasing
- tongue-in-cheek
- vivacious
- waggish
- whimsical
- zippy
- ASAP
- a move on
- abrupt
- accelerated
- active
- agile
- alert
- animated
- breakneck
- brief
- brisk
- cursory
- curt
- double-time
- energetic
- expeditious
- expeditive
- express
- fleet
- flying
- going
- harefooted
- hasty
- headlong
- hurried
- immediate
- impatient
- impetuous
- instantaneous
- keen
- lively
- mercurial
- move it
- nimble
- on the double
- perfunctory
- posthaste
- prompt
- pronto
- rapid
- snappy
- spirited
- split-second
- sprightly
- spry
- sudden
- swift
- the lead out
- winged
- ASAP
- a move on
- abrupt
- accelerated
- active
- agile
- alert
- animated
- breakneck
- brief
- brisk
- cursory
- curt
- double time
- energetic
- expeditious
- expeditive
- express
- fleet
- flying
- going
- harefooted
- hasty
- headlong
- hurried
- immediate
- impatient
- impetuous
- instantaneous
- keen
- lively
- mercurial
- move it
- nimble
- on the double
- perfunctory
- posthaste
- prompt
- pronto
- rapid
- snappy
- spirited
- sprightly
- spry
- sudden
- swift
- the lead out
- winged
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