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high-spirited - definition and meaning
Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
adjective adjective
from The Century Dictionary.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
adjective
from Wiktionary , Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
adjective bold or exuberant nature .adjective energetic
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
adjective
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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
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
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.
Insight Scoop | The Ignatius Press Blog 2009
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
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
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
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
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
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
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.
On Tall Pine Lake by Dorothy Garlock: Book summary 2010
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