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# sprightly

«sprightly» in Mova's school dictionary: **lively, quick and full of life and cheer** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective (sprightlier, sprightliest)

### meaning for a pupil

Sprightly means lively, quick and full of life and cheer. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sprightly/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

in the tales, a quick, merry character who acts with spirit

### examples

- «I see that, but I'll sew this!» replied the sprightly tailor. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sprightly/#x1)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «sprightly» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sprightly/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.