springy
/ˈspɹɪŋi/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.46 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
1
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
That returns rapidly to its original form (as a spring does) after being bent, compressed, stretched, etc.
adj
Characteristic of the spring season.
Example Sentences
- "The soft peat was springy under her feet."
- "The hard woods were used for pegging, the soft woods for cradling the load and the springy woods for carrying it."
- "What returning director Genndy Tartakovsky reveres is animation—and not necessarily the wonders of photorealistic follicle creation or impeccably rendered water, but the kind of gloriously exaggerated movement, the stretchy and springy caricature, that enlivens many classic cartoons."
- "We had now reach'd the closest point of union; but when he backened to come on the fiercer, as if I had been actuated by a fear of losing him, in the height of my fury I twisted my legs round his naked loins, the flesh of which, so firm, so springy to the touch, quiver'd again under the pressure"
- "Shangrila and Linda is an outstandingly uneven book -- sometimes it's fun and springy, and other times it's irritating and boring."
- "Every step—a light click of the heel and then a springy step, optimistic, perhaps a bit contemptuous."
Etymology
From spring + -y.