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"tags": [
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"US",
"adjective"
],
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},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
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"English-Midlands",
"Northern-Ireland",
"rare"
],
"word": "sprightle"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
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},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0",
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"2": "ine-pro",
"3": "*(s)peys-"
},
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"2": "spright",
"3": "Spright"
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"2": "sprite",
"t": "a shade, spirit; elf, fairy, goblin; apparition, ghost"
},
"expansion": "sprite (“a shade, spirit; elf, fairy, goblin; apparition, ghost”)",
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},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "enm",
"3": "sprit",
"t": "principle of life; soul, especially at the point of death; immaterial being (angel, demon, apparition, ghost, etc.); divine inspiration; Holy Spirit; the mind, intellect, reason; mental faculties, senses; power of prophecy; character, disposition; courage, resolution; mood, state of mind; human will; breath; (alchemy) volatile substance"
},
"expansion": "Middle English sprit (“principle of life; soul, especially at the point of death; immaterial being (angel, demon, apparition, ghost, etc.); divine inspiration; Holy Spirit; the mind, intellect, reason; mental faculties, senses; power of prophecy; character, disposition; courage, resolution; mood, state of mind; human will; breath; (alchemy) volatile substance”)",
"name": "inh"
},
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"1": "spreit, spreite, spret, sprete, spright, sprite, spriʒt",
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},
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},
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"2": "xno",
"3": "esprite"
},
"expansion": "Anglo-Norman esprite",
"name": "der"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "xno",
"2": "esprit"
},
"expansion": "esprit",
"name": "m"
},
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"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "frm",
"3": "esprit"
},
"expansion": "Middle French esprit",
"name": "der"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "xno",
"3": "-"
},
"expansion": "Anglo-Norman",
"name": "der"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "frm",
"3": "-"
},
"expansion": "Middle French",
"name": "der"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "fro",
"3": "espirit"
},
"expansion": "Old French espirit",
"name": "der"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "fro",
"2": "esperit",
"t": "spirit"
},
"expansion": "esperit (“spirit”)",
"name": "m"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "la",
"3": "spīritus",
"t": "air; breath; breathing; ghost, spirit"
},
"expansion": "Latin spīritus (“air; breath; breathing; ghost, spirit”)",
"name": "der"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "la",
"2": "spīrō",
"t": "to breathe; to breathe out, exhale"
},
"expansion": "spīrō (“to breathe; to breathe out, exhale”)",
"name": "m"
},
{
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"1": "en",
"2": "ine-pro",
"3": "*(s)peys-",
"t": "to blow; to breathe"
},
"expansion": "Proto-Indo-European *(s)peys- (“to blow; to breathe”)",
"name": "der"
},
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"1": "verbal noun"
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},
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},
{
"args": {
"1": "la",
"2": "-tus",
"t": "suffix forming verbal nouns from verbs"
},
"expansion": "-tus (“suffix forming verbal nouns from verbs”)",
"name": "m"
}
],
"etymology_text": "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, apparition, ghost, etc.); divine inspiration; Holy Spirit; the mind, intellect, reason; mental faculties, senses; power of prophecy; character, disposition; courage, resolution; mood, state of mind; human will; breath; (alchemy) volatile substance”) [and other forms], from Anglo-Norman esprite, esprit and Middle French esprit, variants of Anglo-Norman, Middle French, Old French espirit, esperit (“spirit”), from Latin spīritus (“air; breath; breathing; ghost, spirit”), from spīrō (“to breathe; to breathe out, exhale”) (from Proto-Indo-European *(s)peys- (“to blow; to breathe”)) + -tus (“suffix forming verbal nouns from verbs”).",
"forms": [
{
"form": "sprightlier",
"tags": [
"comparative"
]
},
{
"form": "sprightliest",
"tags": [
"superlative"
]
}
],
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},
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}
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"spright‧ly"
],
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"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "adj",
"related": [
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
"word": "sprightful"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
"tags": [
"rare"
],
"word": "sprightless"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
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"rare"
],
"word": "sprightness"
}
],
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{
"antonyms": [
{
"word": "melancholy"
}
],
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{
"_dis": "12 34 34 4 17",
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"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "25 30 30 4 11",
"kind": "topical",
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"Fundamental"
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"source": "w+disamb"
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{
"ref": "c. 1614–1616, “[Certaine Poems.] Planetarum Energia.”, in J. M. Cowper, editor, compiled by R. C. [Richard Corbet?], The Times’ Whistle: Or A Newe Daunce of Seven Satires, and Other Poems: […], London: Published for the Early English Text Society, by N[icholas] Trübner & Co., […], published 1871, →OCLC, leaf 40, page 114, lines 13–14",
"text": "Next vnto lumpish Saturn, sprightlie Iove / Moves in his orbe.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1767, [William Julius Mickle], “Canto II”, in The Concubine: A Poem, in Two Cantos. In the Manner of Spenser, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] Daniel Prince; [s]old by J[ohn] Rivington, […]; T[homas] Payne, […]; and J[ames] Dodsley, […]; Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: T. and J. Merrill, →OCLC, stanza LIV, page 70",
"text": "[B]y the Path-way green, / A ſprightlie Troupe ſtill onward heedleſſe ſped, / In Chace of Butterflies alert and keen; / Honours, and Wealth, and Powre, their Butterflies I ween.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "a. 1764, William Shenstone, “Love and Music, Writen at Oxford, when Young”, in Samuel Johnson, editor, The Works of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland; […], volume VII, London: […] Andrew Miller, […], published 1800, →OCLC, page 137, column 1",
"text": "The Bard now tries a ſprightlier ſound, / When all the feather'd race around / Perceive the varied ſtrains; / The ſoaring lark the note purſues; / The timorous dove around him cooes, / And Philomel complains.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Animated, gay, or vivacious; lively, spirited."
],
"id": "en-sprightly-en-adj-FDuPZRh-",
"links": [
[
"Animated",
"animated#Adjective"
],
[
"gay",
"gay#Adjective"
],
[
"vivacious",
"vivacious"
],
[
"lively",
"lively"
],
[
"spirited",
"spirited#Adjective"
]
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "energetic"
},
{
"word": "high-spirited"
},
{
"tags": [
"Australia",
"US"
],
"word": "spright"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"_dis1": "46 27 27 1",
"code": "ar",
"lang": "Arabic",
"roman": "dajir",
"sense": "animated, gay, or vivacious — see also lively",
"word": "دَجِر"
},
{
"_dis1": "46 27 27 1",
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "vesel",
"sense": "animated, gay, or vivacious — see also lively",
"word": "весел"
},
{
"_dis1": "46 27 27 1",
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "oživen",
"sense": "animated, gay, or vivacious — see also lively",
"word": "оживен"
},
{
"_dis1": "46 27 27 1",
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "animated, gay, or vivacious — see also lively",
"word": "animé"
},
{
"_dis1": "46 27 27 1",
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "animated, gay, or vivacious — see also lively",
"word": "beoga"
},
{
"_dis1": "46 27 27 1",
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "animated, gay, or vivacious — see also lively",
"word": "breabhsánta"
},
{
"_dis1": "46 27 27 1",
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "animated, gay, or vivacious — see also lively",
"word": "éirimiúil"
},
{
"_dis1": "46 27 27 1",
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "animated, gay, or vivacious — see also lively",
"word": "vegetus"
},
{
"_dis1": "46 27 27 1",
"code": "lv",
"lang": "Latvian",
"sense": "animated, gay, or vivacious — see also lively",
"word": "spirgts"
},
{
"_dis1": "46 27 27 1",
"code": "lv",
"lang": "Latvian",
"sense": "animated, gay, or vivacious — see also lively",
"word": "možs"
},
{
"_dis1": "46 27 27 1",
"code": "lv",
"lang": "Latvian",
"sense": "animated, gay, or vivacious — see also lively",
"word": "mundrs"
},
{
"_dis1": "46 27 27 1",
"code": "lv",
"lang": "Latvian",
"sense": "animated, gay, or vivacious — see also lively",
"word": "ņiprs"
},
{
"_dis1": "46 27 27 1",
"code": "lv",
"lang": "Latvian",
"sense": "animated, gay, or vivacious — see also lively",
"word": "žirgts"
},
{
"_dis1": "46 27 27 1",
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "animated, gay, or vivacious — see also lively",
"word": "ngākau hihiko"
},
{
"_dis1": "46 27 27 1",
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "animated, gay, or vivacious — see also lively",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "živahan"
},
{
"_dis1": "46 27 27 1",
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "animated, gay, or vivacious — see also lively",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "čio"
}
]
},
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"kind": "other",
"name": "English terms suffixed with -ly (adjectival)",
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"source": "w+disamb"
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{
"_dis": "12 34 34 4 17",
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{
"_dis": "25 30 30 4 11",
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"langcode": "en",
"name": "Personality",
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"source": "w+disamb"
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{
"ref": "1685, [Francis Willis [et al.]], “Ode the 15th of the First Book of Casimire Imitated, Encouraging the Polish Knights after Their Last Conquests to Proceed in Their Victory”, in Miscellany Poems and Translations by Oxford Hands, London: […] Anthony Stephens, […], stanza VI, page 77",
"text": "Shall our example ſloth create, / And make our Sons degenerate? / Our ſprightly youth uſeleſs in War become, / And ſleep in peace and ſlavery at home.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1845, “The Heir of Linne”, in James Henry Dixon, editor, Scottish Traditional Versions of Ancient Ballads (Early English Poetry, Ballads, and Popular Literature of the Middle Ages. […]; XVII, number 1), London: […] [F]or the Percy Society, by T. Richards, […], →OCLC, page 33, lines 79–80",
"text": "This youth was ance a sprightlie boy / As ever lived in Linne.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1861, [Flora Frances Wylde], The Tablette Booke of Ladye Mary Keyes, Owne Sister to the Misfortunate Ladye Jane Dudlie; […], London: Saunders, Otley, and Co. […], →OCLC, page 197",
"text": "Methinkes it was aboutt this Date that a ſore Afflicſhon befelle my deare and formerlie merrie Siſter, the Ladye Herbert, whom my Reder will beſte recollecte as my Ladye Mother's beſte beloved Childe, the happie, ſprightlie Katie of oure School-den Daies.\nThe fictional work is written in an old-fashioned style.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
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"Of a person: full of life and vigour, especially with a light and springy step."
],
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"person",
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[
"full",
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],
[
"life",
"life"
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[
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],
[
"light",
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],
[
"springy",
"springy"
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[
"step",
"step#Noun"
]
],
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{
"word": "active"
},
{
"word": "dynamic"
},
{
"word": "mettlesome"
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{
"word": "vivacious"
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]
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"Of a person: full of life and vigour, especially with a light and springy step.",
"Especially of an older person: energetic and in good health; spry."
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[
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[
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[
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[
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"word": "active"
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"word": "dynamic"
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{
"word": "mettlesome"
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"word": "vivacious"
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"_dis1": "13 14 73 0",
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "energičen",
"sense": "especially of an older person: energetic and in good health",
"word": "енергичен"
},
{
"_dis1": "13 14 73 0",
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "mladežki",
"sense": "especially of an older person: energetic and in good health",
"word": "младежки"
},
{
"_dis1": "13 14 73 0",
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "especially of an older person: energetic and in good health",
"word": "breabhsánta"
},
{
"_dis1": "13 14 73 0",
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "especially of an older person: energetic and in good health",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "čio"
}
]
},
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"Of or relating to a sprite; ghostly, spectral."
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[
"spectral",
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"(obsolete, rare) Of or relating to a sprite; ghostly, spectral."
],
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"obsolete",
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}
],
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{
"ipa": "/ˈspɹaɪtli/",
"tags": [
"General-American",
"Received-Pronunciation"
]
},
{
"rhymes": "-aɪtli"
},
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],
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{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
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"word": "sprightlie"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
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}
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"_dis1": "0 50 50 1",
"code": "ar",
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"roman": "dajir",
"sense": "of a person: full of life and vigour",
"word": "دَجِر"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 50 50 1",
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "živ",
"sense": "of a person: full of life and vigour",
"word": "жив"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 50 50 1",
"code": "bg",
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"roman": "energičen",
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"word": "енергичен"
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"_dis1": "0 50 50 1",
"code": "fr",
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"sense": "of a person: full of life and vigour",
"word": "vif"
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"_dis1": "0 50 50 1",
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "of a person: full of life and vigour",
"word": "beoga"
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"_dis1": "0 50 50 1",
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "of a person: full of life and vigour",
"word": "breabhsánta"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 50 50 1",
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "of a person: full of life and vigour",
"word": "éirimiúil"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 50 50 1",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "of a person: full of life and vigour",
"word": "vivace"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 50 50 1",
"code": "ky",
"lang": "Kyrgyz",
"roman": "tıŋ",
"sense": "of a person: full of life and vigour",
"word": "тың"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 50 50 1",
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "of a person: full of life and vigour",
"word": "ngangahu"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 50 50 1",
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "of a person: full of life and vigour",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "živahan"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 50 50 1",
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "of a person: full of life and vigour",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "čio"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 50 50 1",
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "of a person: full of life and vigour",
"word": "vigoroso"
}
],
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}
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}
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"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "mladežki",
"sense": "especially of an older person: energetic and in good health",
"word": "младежки"
},
{
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "especially of an older person: energetic and in good health",
"word": "breabhsánta"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "especially of an older person: energetic and in good health",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "čio"
}
],
"word": "sprightly"
}
{
"categories": [
"English 2-syllable words",
"English adverbs",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English lemmas",
"English terms suffixed with -ly (adverbial)",
"English terms with IPA pronunciation",
"English terms with audio links",
"Rhymes:English/aɪtli",
"Rhymes:English/aɪtli/2 syllables",
"en:Personality"
],
"derived": [
{
"word": "sprightlily"
}
],
"etymology_number": 2,
"etymology_templates": [
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"args": {
"1": "suffix"
},
"expansion": "suffix",
"name": "glossary"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "adverb"
},
"expansion": "adverb",
"name": "glossary"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "adjective"
},
"expansion": "adjective",
"name": "glossary"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "spright",
"3": "ly",
"id2": "adverbial",
"pos2": "suffix forming adverbs from adjectives"
},
"expansion": "spright + -ly (suffix forming adverbs from adjectives)",
"name": "suffix"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From spright + -ly (suffix forming adverbs from adjectives).; see further at etymology 1.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "sprightlier",
"tags": [
"comparative"
]
},
{
"form": "sprightliest",
"tags": [
"superlative"
]
}
],
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{
"args": {
"1": "er"
},
"expansion": "sprightly (comparative sprightlier, superlative sprightliest)",
"name": "en-adv"
}
],
"hyphenation": [
"spright‧ly"
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "adv",
"senses": [
{
"glosses": [
"In a lively and vigorous way; sprightlily."
],
"links": [
[
"lively",
"lively"
],
[
"vigorous",
"vigorous"
],
[
"way",
"way#Noun"
],
[
"sprightlily",
"sprightlily"
]
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈspɹaɪtli/",
"tags": [
"General-American",
"Received-Pronunciation"
]
},
{
"rhymes": "-aɪtli"
},
{
"audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-I learned some phrases-sprightly.wav",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/5/51/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-I_learned_some_phrases-sprightly.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-I_learned_some_phrases-sprightly.wav.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/5/51/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-I_learned_some_phrases-sprightly.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-I_learned_some_phrases-sprightly.wav.ogg",
"tags": [
"Received-Pronunciation"
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"text": "Audio (RP)"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "oživeno",
"sense": "in a lively and vigorous way",
"word": "оживено"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "energično",
"sense": "in a lively and vigorous way",
"word": "енергично"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "in a lively and vigorous way",
"word": "vigoureusement"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "in a lively and vigorous way",
"word": "vigorosamente"
}
],
"word": "sprightly"
}
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