Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Having a proud or unbroken spirit.
- adjective Vivacious; lively.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having a high spirit; bold; mettlesome; sensitive.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Full of spirit or natural fire; haughty; courageous; impetuous; not brooking restraint or opposition.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Possessing a
bold orexuberant nature . - adjective
energetic
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective joyously unrestrained
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Examples
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Born into a family of high-spirited women, she was a feminist before that word became fashionable.
Stephen Schlesinger: A Memoir at Age 99 Stephen Schlesinger 2011
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Born into a family of high-spirited women, she was a feminist before that word became fashionable.
Stephen Schlesinger: A Memoir at Age 99 Stephen Schlesinger 2011
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His clever, careful son and his high-spirited daughter stopped bickering when he came into the kitchen and from the narrow hall watched him with embarrassed anxiety when he stopped on the stairs to gather a little breath to go up another step.
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Later, Khan appeared at the Jemaa El Fna, the sprawling square of the Medina quarter where an even more high-spirited crowd awaited his arrival.
Ariston Anderson: World's Biggest Star, King Khan, Opens Marrakech Film Festival Ariston Anderson 2011
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His clever, careful son and his high-spirited daughter stopped bickering when he came into the kitchen and from the narrow hall watched him with embarrassed anxiety when he stopped on the stairs to gather a little breath to go up another step.
Art and Literature 2009
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His clever, careful son and his high-spirited daughter stopped bickering when he came into the kitchen and from the narrow hall watched him with embarrassed anxiety when he stopped on the stairs to gather a little breath to go up another step.
The Prologue to "A Postcard From the Volcano: A Novel of Pre-War Germany" 2009
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It's like asking a high-spirited young gun dog to join the parade at Crufts.
Mark Cavendish is no mountain man, but he adores the Giro d'Italia 2011
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Her father and I had worried about our high-spirited daughter getting into trouble if she stayed home alone all summer.
Chicken Soup for the Soul: Grandmothers Jack Canfield 2011
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This was Huston's sweet spot—high-spirited, far-darting male adventure stories, which let him exercise his visual storytelling skills, which were less apparent to others than to him.
The Man Who Would Be King Richard Schickel 2011
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Each day is a struggle -- to go on after her parents 'sudden death, to win her rightful inheritance from her untrustworthy half-brother, and to raise her high-spirited younger sister.
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