sprightlie
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
1
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Next vnto lumpish Saturn, sprightlie Iove / Moves in his orbe."
- "[B]y the Path-way green, / A ſprightlie Troupe ſtill onward heedleſſe ſped, / In Chace of Butterflies alert and keen; / Honours, and Wealth, and Powre, their Butterflies I ween."
- "This youth was ance a sprightlie boy / As ever lived in Linne."
- "Methinkes it was aboutt this Date that a ſore Afflicſhon befelle my deare and formerlie merrie Siſter, the Ladye Herbert, whom my Reder will beſte recollecte as my Ladye Mother's beſte beloved Childe, the happie, ſprightlie Katie of oure School-den Daies."
Usage
Inflected Forms
sprightlier (comparative)
more sprightlie (comparative)
sprightliest (superlative)
most sprightlie (superlative)