Usually means: Intellectual with a lively mind.
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  1. bel esprit: Merriam-Webster
  2. bel esprit: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. bel esprit: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. bel esprit: Collins English Dictionary
  5. bel esprit: Vocabulary.com
  6. bel-esprit: Wordnik
  7. bel esprit: Wiktionary
  8. Bel-esprit, bel-esprit, bel esprit: Dictionary.com
  9. Bel-esprit: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. bel-esprit: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  11. bel esprit: Rhymezone
  12. Bel-esprit: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  13. Bel Esprit: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  14. bel-esprit, bel esprit: FreeDictionary.org
  15. bel esprit: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. Bel-esprit, bel esprit: TheFreeDictionary.com

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Definitions from Wiktionary (bel esprit)

▸ noun:  A very witty or clever person.

Similar:
belle esprit, bright spark, spirit, bien pensant, brightness, intelligent person, élan, bien-pensant, cleverness, good spirits, more...

Opposite:
philistine, uncultured, unrefined, ignorant

Adjectives:
clever, cute, smart, witted, smartish, savvy, owlish, ingenious, heroicomical, humored, wiselike

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Similar:
belle esprit, bright spark, spirit, bien pensant, brightness, intelligent person, élan, bien-pensant, cleverness, good spirits, more...

Opposite:
philistine, uncultured, unrefined, ignorant

Adjectives:
clever, cute, smart, witted, smartish, savvy, owlish, ingenious, heroicomical, humored, wiselike



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