English to Xhosa Meaning of sprightly - sprightly

Sprightly :

sprightly

adjective

okuphilayo, ngokucace, kubethwa ngumoya, lutsale, eliphilileyo, zemikhosi, ukunconywa, inkanuko, kunomoya, ezinokususwa, olungele ukusebenza

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Definitions of sprightly in English

Adjective(1) full of spirit and vitality

Examples of sprightly in English

(1) He is at ease with his age - a sprightly 64.(2) He looked as lively and sprightly as ever despite now being in his mid forties.(3) His lover, Mercedes, is a sprightly dancer who would have benefited from a brighter costume.(4) When Lucy, a sprightly waitress with a song on her lips and in her heart, meets Adam, she gives up her ├ö├ç├┐man-izing├ö├ç├û ways and wants to settle down.(5) A sprightly woman wrings her hands as if flirtatiously sizing up a fellow resident at the nursing home.(6) ├ö├ç├┐We say that the day you don't think about falling, you will fall,├ö├ç├û says Corinne Pierre, a sprightly French-Canadian acrobat.(7) There was an amusing final theatrical flourish from the Conservative candidate, John Taylor, a sprightly 63-year-old.(8) She was an engaging little creature, full of sprightliness and life.(9) Brian followed and greeted Michelle quietly while smiling at his spritely sister.(10) ├ö├ç├┐Come on, let's get back to the inn,├ö├ç├û Chenok stood up with a sprightliness that you wouldn't find in a dying man.(11) ├ö├ç├┐But I'm 18, that's how old I feel,├ö├ç├û he says - and there is, to be sure, a sprightliness about him still.(12) Yet it was their sprightliness in attack, their urgency in scampering forward, that characterised the early exchanges at Rugby Park.(13) Tom seems very well, spritely I think the word is.(14) She was small and spritely with light hair and laughing hazel eyes, in contrast to Agathe who was tall, dark and solemn, although very graceful and beautiful.(15) Sergio Martino is spritely and lively in his discussion of this early project.(16) The spritely 27-year-old was swept in as a last-minute understudy for the part when Clairemarie Osta came down with double tendinitis.

Synonyms

Adjective

1. spry ::

spry

2. lively ::

eliphilileyo

3. agile ::

zikhululekile

4. nimble ::

nimble

5. energetic ::

ezingenamandla

6. active ::

esebenzayo

7. full of energy ::

ngokupheleleyo amandla

8. vigorous ::

ngenku-

9. spirited ::

ngokomoya

10. animated ::

okuphilayo

11. vivacious ::

ngamaqhakraqhakra

12. frisky ::

frisky

13. full of vim and vigor ::

ezele vím kunye obutsha

Antonyms

1. dead ::

abafileyo

2. inactive ::

engasebenziyo

3. inanimate ::

ezingaphiliyo

4. lackadaisical ::

lwethu

5. languid ::

languid

6. limp ::

ukujingxela

7. listless ::

listless

8. vapid ::

vapid

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