[ US /ˈspɪɹɪtɪd/ ]
[ UK /spˈɪɹɪtɪd/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. willing to face danger
  2. marked by lively action
    a bouncing gait
    a spirited dance
    bouncy tunes
    the peppy and interesting talk
  3. made lively or spirited
    a meal enlivened by the music
    a spirited debate
  4. displaying animation, vigor, or liveliness
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How To Use spirited In A Sentence

  • Gervinho might prove to be another classic Arsène Wenger bargain, an athletic and pacy ball player raring to step up a level, spirited over from France for a fee that doesn't make a certain manager with a well-documented devotion to cautious housekeeping choke as if he was asked to fix the Greek economy before breakfast. Premier League preview No1: Arsenal | Amy Lawrence
  • In the curtain-raiser Federals put in a spirited performance against South in a match which didn't reach any dizzy heights in terms of skill, but held a level of entertainment value.
  • Uncle Fliakim Sheril, furbished up in a new crisp black suit, and with his spindleshanks trimly incased in the smoothest of black silk stockings, looking for all the world just like an alert and spirited black cricket, outdid himself on this occasion in singing _counter_, in that high, weird voice that he must have learned from the wintry winds that usually piped around the corners of the old house. Good Cheer Stories Every Child Should Know
  • Activists who have fought land rights battles inspired by the Constitution are a weary, dispirited lot.
  • For creative individuals, the siesta proffers a gift basket of ideas with which to consume an hour or so, the least spirited of which, to put it delicately, is the nap. Good morning, Melaque: one day in a small Mexico beach town
  • The criticism is worse than meanspirited: it is wrong. Times, Sunday Times
  • However after learning Yang great wild goose this factory arms the security office staff status truly, the new hundred personnel depart low-spirited.
  • The program ended with a free-spirited coda by all the dancers doing this, that, and especially the other, all with happy bravura and to Tchaikovsky.
  • Stowe gives a stirring performance as a strong spirited female.
  • She is a public-spirited person who is eager to correct the wrongs that we all see but we easily overlook.
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