High-spirited

Pronunciation varies by accent · adjective

Meaning

Possessing a bold nature..

Definitions by Sense

1. Possessing a bold nature.
2. Energetic, exuberant, or high-strung.

Example Sentences

The more high-spirited among the youth were, about the time that our narrative begins, expecting, rather with hope than apprehension, an opportunity of emulating their fathers in their military achievements.

"She was as fine a figure of a woman as I was a man, as high-spirited and courageous, as reckless and dare-devilish."

Their poor mother was, I believe, naturally a lighthearted, sociable, high-spirited little creature; and her gay and childish nature pined in the isolation and gloom of her lot.

Though she was nineteen she gave the effect of a high-spirited precocious child, and in the present glow of her youth and beauty all the men and women she had known were but driftwood on the ripples of her temperament.

Last week a group of four high-spirited folksters known as the Weavers had succeeded in shouting, twanging and crooning folk singing out of its cloistered corner.

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• more high-spirited
• most high-spirited

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