Usually means: Lively, energetic, and full of vigor.
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  1. sprightly: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. sprightly: Merriam-Webster
  3. sprightly: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. sprightly: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. sprightly: Collins English Dictionary
  6. sprightly: Vocabulary.com
  7. Sprightly, sprightly: Wordnik
  8. sprightly: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. sprightly: Wiktionary
  10. sprightly: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. sprightly: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. sprightly: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. sprightly: Dictionary.com
  14. sprightly: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. Sprightly: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. sprightly: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. sprightly: Rhymezone
  18. Sprightly: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. sprightly: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. sprightly: FreeDictionary.org
  21. sprightly: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. sprightly: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. sprightly: Legal dictionary

(Note: See sprightlier as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (sprightly)

adjective:  Animated, gay, or vivacious; lively, spirited.
adjective:  Of a person: full of life and vigour, especially with a light and springy step.
adjective:  Especially of an older person: energetic and in good health; spry.
adjective:  (obsolete, rare) Of or relating to a sprite; ghostly, spectral.
adverb:  In a lively and vigorous way; sprightlily.

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