sprightly
6 antonyms for sprightly — opposites grouped by meaning.
Adj — Full of energy and cheerfulness; lively.
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3. adj
Describes an older person who is still active, healthy and full of energy.
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Etymology
From spright + -ly (suffix forming adjectives with the sense ‘behaving like, having the nature of’). Spright is an obsolete variant of sprite (“a shade, spirit; elf, fairy, goblin; apparition, ghost”), from Middle English sprit (“principle of life; soul, especially at the point of death; immaterial being (angel, demon,...
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