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HIGH-SPIRITED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does high-spirited mean? 

HIGH-SPIRITED (adjective)
  The adjective HIGH-SPIRITED has 1 sense:

1. joyously unrestrainedplay

  Familiarity information: HIGH-SPIRITED used as an adjective is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


HIGH-SPIRITED (adjective)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Joyously unrestrained

Synonyms:

ebullient; exuberant; high-spirited

Similar:

spirited (displaying animation, vigor, or liveliness)

Derivation:

high-spiritedness (exuberant liveliness)


 Context examples 


Can you imagine what it means for a sensitive and high-spirited woman to be tied to him for day and night?

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Yet it was a hard time for sensitive, high-spirited Jo, who meant so well and had apparently done so ill.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

The high-spirited, joyous-talking Louisa Musgrove, and the dejected, thinking, feeling, reading, Captain Benwick, seemed each of them everything that would not suit the other.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

I kept my distance from her, and I wore a beard, so that she should not recognize me, for she is a good and high-spirited girl, and she wouldn’t have stayed in my employment long if she had thought that I was following her about the country roads.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)



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