Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Having a proud or unbroken spirit: a high-spirited horse.
- adj. Vivacious; lively: a high-spirited tune.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Having a high spirit; bold; mettlesome; sensitive.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Full of spirit or natural fire; haughty; courageous; impetuous; not brooking restraint or opposition.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. joyously unrestrained
Examples
“Her father and I had worried about our high-spirited daughter getting into trouble if she stayed home alone all summer.”
“It's like asking a high-spirited young gun dog to join the parade at Crufts.”
The Guardian: Mark Cavendish is no mountain man, but he adores the Giro d'Italia
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“Born into a family of high-spirited women, she was a feminist before that word became fashionable.”
The Huffington Post: Stephen Schlesinger: A Memoir at Age 99
“You totter away from each section of his work thunderstruck both at the brilliance with which he dissects the real nature of sin, and at his fierce refusal to marshal the least scrap of self-defense ( "Oh -- we were just high-spirited boys!").”
“The school is known for being particularly good at channeling high-spirited boy energy into creativity and learning.”
The Huffington Post: Tom Matlack: Are Women's Colleges Outdated?
“There's nothing high-spirited about the wrestling matches.”
The Huffington Post: Richard Karpala: Win Win Review and Filmmaker Interview
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Compound Adjectives
Use compound adjectives to talk about the qualities of rule models and heroes.
coolheaded, cold-hearted, cold-blooded, absent-minded, empty-headed, hardheaded, hard-hearted, hot-blooded, hotheaded, narrow-minded, kindhearted, fast-talking and 18 more...
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