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词汇 sprightly
释义 sprightly
adjective
uk /ˈspraɪt.li/ us /ˈspraɪt.li/
(especially of old people) energetic and in good health: 精力充沛的;(尤指老年人)老当益壮的,矍铄的
He's a sprightly old man of 75.他75岁了,是个精神矍铄的老人。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Energetic and lively
ablaze
alive
astir
barnstorming
be alive and well/kickingidiom
be as fresh as a daisyidiom
be full of beansidiom
boisterous
crackling
freshness
friskily
frisky
frolic
frolicsome
fury
re-energize
refreshed
refreshingly
rejuvenate
rejuvenation

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Describing people who are old

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sprightliness

Examples of sprightly


sprightly
This is an excellent addition to a continuingly sprightly and provocative series.
The 14th century also saw the beginning of a new literature of travel in sprightly and informing travelogues.
Music of a livelier disposition followed with much rhythmic figurations for cello accompanied by sprightly pizzicato, which ultimately led to a big tutti with a sweepingly romantic violin tune.
He cannot have meant "young", and that makes me wonder whether he meant sprightly.
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Someone who is active and sprightly may have little need for a large bedroom.
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It would be anomalous to reduce the normal retiring age to 70 but to permit a judge, however spry and sprightly, to continue after 75.
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Some people seem young and are sprightly and very healthy at a remarkably old age; others deteriorate more quickly.
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He learns his lessons with sprightly ease, and he has not been long in presenting us with the proofs of his training.
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They are indeed a sprightly pair who make most of us seem by comparison conventional, peaceful and elderly.
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Indeed, you look more sprightly than many of the rest of us do.
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Just because people live longer, it does not mean that they are sprightly to the end of their days.
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That came up very late at night, after midnight, whereas this time it has come up at the fairly sprightly hour of half-past nine.
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Does the amendment cover a person who is 70 plus, not very sprightly but who cannot claim to be disabled?
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Her conversation is sprightly but light in nature.
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The track is all triple-time drum programming and sprightly synthesizer lead lines.
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