Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Brisk; lively; cheerful; full of alacrity.
Wiktionary
- adj. rare Brisk, speedy, with alacrity, quick and eager.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. quick and eager
Examples
“But there can be clarity, something that Grace Hartigan and Frank O'Hara demonstrate with exuberance and alacritous poignancy.”
“The alacritous flight attendant walked by and I summoned her quietly.”
“Legend of Zelda Octorok Hunter – Made this mettlesome in a some days, ease employed on it The neutral is to blackball every adversary as alacritous as possible”
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“Avery, always alacritous, scooped him up and set him on his feet while his head yet reeled.”
“Instead, I have found, that Catholic priests are rather alacritous in their willingness to allow me to score a stack of freshly consecrated hosts for my Body of Christ Soufflé.”
“But an alacritous colleague called to say what Michaele Salahi was wearing was not a sari, but a lehenga-choli (long skirt and blouse) with a dupatta (long scarf)!”
“The Bush regime are the most alacritous liars in human history, albeit piss poor liars.”
“My retreat from the courthouse office was more alacritous than dignified.”
“A quiet and refreshing night's rest followed, and alacritous waking in the morning; but all this was far more probably owing, as has been already hinted, to excellent and well-considered habits of diet and exercise.”
“Soon the surgeon of the house came, -- a brisk, alacritous, civil, cheerful young man, by whom we were shown to the apartment where the mate was lying.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘alacritous’.
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avfordomd's list
lexicon
copacetic, amiable, philanthropic, misanthropic, gregarious, vehement, parcel, congregate, paucity, passel, multitudinous, pulchritudinous and 98 more...
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A Refined Lexicon
ambivalence, ambivalent, equivocal, equivocation, equivocate, prevaricate, prevarication, quietude, quiescent, quiescence, vanquish, pluviosity and 137 more...
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Words I Know
List of most of the words I've learned
garner, abase, abate, abdicate, abduct, aberration, abet, abhor, abide, abject, abjure, abnegation and 1046 more...
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go with a smile
celerity, alacritous, listy, joyous, beaming, bolsterous, ditzy, head in the clouds, gladding, buttle
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Nabokov vocabulary
verisimilitude, geminate, pedantic, intervestibular, equilibrist, nictitating, anastomosis, quiddity, torus, cacahuete, undulation, pensum and 135 more...
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A spoonful of sugar
Words I should learn/I want to learn/I just learned, with a quotation to help the medicine go down.
approbation, assuage, chicanery, abscond, effrontery, enervation, equivocate, ennui, aftertaste, filibuster, perfunctory, abide and 391 more...
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rememberers
prolix, ageusia, animadversion, anodyne, antic, arabesque, beadle, brachymetropia, colophon, desquamation, diaphoresis, diegesis and 3250 more...
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Speak, Memory
Words gathered while reading Speak, Memory by Vladimir Nabokov.
cracknel, shingly, glaucous, stretcherman, goodish, loden, gutticle, percha, plasticine, instar, wellhole, camera-lucida and 357 more...
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La Donya Donna
bellibone, mellifluous, swarf, vim, estival, euphonious, foetus, flummox, pulchritudinous, nonpareil, titivation, veridical and 12 more...
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Jheti's Words
ordinarily, diacritic, intrinsic, coalesce, salient, valence, crenellations, expurgate, relapse, disconsolate, matriculation, corrugated and 128 more...
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Emotions & Feelings
felicific, felicity, beatific, sanguine, anodyne, doleful, zeal, alacrity, alacritous, tumult, noxious, indurate and 74 more...
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Sentence Enhancers
Good enough even for the most refined lexicon...
belletrist, elucidation, belletristic, elucidate, volition, veracity, veracious, grandiloquent, grandiloquence, magniloquent, magniloquence, munificent and 32 more...
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Personality: Bubbly
sprightly, zealous, zeal, alacrity, alacritous, facetious, cloying, ebullient, zest, convivial
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Words to Use
geocentric, unicursal, multicursal, foment, noosphere, alacritous, alacrity, celerity, eponymous, multifarious
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artpilgrim's list
See above.
acquiesce, arbutus, pergola, pleach, alacritous, libretto, facetious, moo
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