Definition of Sprightly. Meaning of Sprightly. Synonyms of Sprightly

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Definition of Sprightly

Sprightly
Sprightly Spright"ly, a. [Compar. Sprightlier; superl. Sprightliest.] [See Sprite.] Sprightlike, or spiritlike; lively; brisk; animated; vigorous; airy; gay; as, a sprightly youth; a sprightly air; a sprightly dance. ``Sprightly wit and love inspires.' --Dryden. The sprightly Sylvia trips along the green. --Pope.

Meaning of Sprightly from wikipedia

- name HMS Sprightly: HMS Sprightly (1777) was a 12 gun cutter built in Dover in August 1777, that sank 23 December 1777 off Guernsey HMS Sprightly (1778)...
- HMAS Sprightly was a tugboat operated by the Royal Australian Navy (RAN) between 1943 and 1953. She was built by the Levingston Shipbuilding Company,...
- HMS Sprightly was a B-class torpedo boat destroyer of the British Royal Navy. She was built speculatively by Laird, Son & Company, Birkenhead, pre-empting...
- surve**** by the BelgAE (1897–99). Named by UK-APC after the British sealer Sprightly, Captain Hughes, which visited this vicinity in 1824-25. Relyovo Peninsula...
- RV Sprightly was a 42m research vessel owned by the Australian Commonwealth Scientific Research Organisation (CSIRO). Sprightly originally served as a...
- recommissioned August 1959 as INS Rahav HMS Sea Robin (P267) – cancelled HMS Sprightly (P268) – cancelled HMS Surface (P269) – cancelled HMS Surge (P271) – cancelled...
- HMS Sprightly was a 10-gun cutter of the Royal Navy, built to a design by John Williams, and the name ship of her two-vessel class of cutters. She was...
- warble, Where the fountain sleeps. warble, the birds sprightly. Where warble the birds sprightly. 'Neath the dome rowers unite, 'Neath the leafy dome...
- Sprightly was a 6-gun Nightingale-class cutter built for the Royal Navy during the 1810s. She was wrecked off the Isle of Portland in 1821. Sprightly...
- Oligoryzomys vegetus, also known as the sprightly colilargo or sprightly pygmy rice rat, is a species of rodent in the genus Oligoryzomys of family Cricetidae...