high-spirited
/hˌaɪspˈɪɹɪdɪd/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 3.55 in modern English
22
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
5
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Possessing a bold nature.
adj
Energetic, exuberant, or high-strung.
Example Sentences
- "The more high-spirited among the youth were, about the time that our narrative begins, expecting, rather with hope than apprehension, an opportunity of emulating their fathers in their military achievements."
- ""She was as fine a figure of a woman as I was a man, as high-spirited and courageous, as reckless and dare-devilish.""
- "Their poor mother was, I believe, naturally a lighthearted, sociable, high-spirited little creature; and her gay and childish nature pined in the isolation and gloom of her lot."
- "Though she was nineteen she gave the effect of a high-spirited precocious child, and in the present glow of her youth and beauty all the men and women she had known were but driftwood on the ripples of her temperament."
- "Last week a group of four high-spirited folksters known as the Weavers had succeeded in shouting, twanging and crooning folk singing out of its cloistered corner."
Inflected Forms
more high-spirited (comparative)
most high-spirited (superlative)