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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

SPRIGHTLY, a. Lively; brisk; animated; vigorous; airy; gay; as a sprightly youth; a sprightly air; a sprightly dance.
The sprightly Sylvia trips along the green.
And sprightly wit and love inspires.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: full of spirit and vitality; "a sprightly young girl"; "a sprightly dance"

Merriam Webster's

adjective (sprightlier; -est) Etymology: obsolete spright (sprite), alteration of sprite Date: 1596 1. marked by a gay lightness and vivacity ; spirited <a sprightly musical> 2. having a distinctively piquant taste ; zesty <a sprightly salsa> Synonyms: see lively • sprightliness noun • sprightly adverb

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. (sprightlier, sprightliest) vivacious, lively, brisk. Derivatives: sprightliness n. Etymology: spright var. of SPRITE + -LY(1)

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(sprightlier, sprightliest) A sprightly person, especially an old person, is lively and active. ...the sprightly 85-year-old President. = spry ADJ: usu ADJ n

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

a. Lively, mercurial, animated, vigorous, vivacious, buoyant, brisk, blithe, blithesome, gay, airy, cheerful, joyous, frolicsome buxom, debonair, pleasant.

Moby Thesaurus

Attic, active, activist, activistic, agile, alert, alive, animate, animated, antic, biting, bouncing, bouncy, breezy, brilliant, brisk, bubbly, capersome, cheerful, chipper, clever, coltish, droll, ebullient, effervescent, energetic, exuberant, facetious, featly, fleet, frisky, frolicsome, full of beans, full of go, full of life, full of pep, funny, gamesome, gay, good, graceful, hearty, humorous, humorsome, jaunty, jesting, jocose, jocular, joking, joky, joshing, keen, keen-witted, light, light-footed, live, lively, mercurial, militant, mordant, neat-fingered, neat-handed, nimble, nimble-footed, nimble-witted, peart, peppy, perky, pert, playful, pointed, pungent, quick-witted, quicksilver, rapier-like, rollicking, rollicksome, rompish, salt, salty, scintillating, sharp, skittish, smacking, smart, snappy, spanking, sparkling, spirited, sportive, spry, sure-footed, vital, vivacious, volant, whimsical, witty, zestful, zingy, zippy