Synonyms for spirited
ˈspɪr ɪ tɪdspir·it·ed

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1. spirited

   Racy applies in the first instance to the pleasing flavor characteristic of certain wines, often attributed to the soil from which they come. Pungent denotes something sharply irritating to the organs of taste or smell, as pepper, vinegar, ammonia; piquant denotes a quality similar in kind to pungent but less in degree, stimulating and agreeable; pungent spices may be deftly compounded into a piquant sauce. As applied to literary products, racy refers to that which has a striking, vigorous, pleasing originality; spicy to that which is stimulating to the mental taste, as spice is to the physical; piquant and pungent in their figurative use keep very close to their literal sense.

   Synonyms:
   flavorous, forcible, lively, piquant, pungent, racy, rich, spicy

   Antonyms:
   cold, dull, flat, flavorless, insipid, prosy, stale, stupid, tasteless, vapid

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1. spirited

   Synonyms:
   animated, lively, vivacious, ardent, buoyant, sprightly, courageous

   Antonyms:
   dull, dispirited, depressed, cowardly

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1. spiritedadjective

   displaying animation, vigor, or liveliness

   Synonyms:
   enlivened, mettlesome, bouncy, gamy, zippy, bouncing, gritty, gamey, spunky, peppy, game

   Antonyms:
   unanimated, fearful, listless, bloodless, dispirited, thin, spiritless, apathetic, cowardly, dull, heartless

2. bouncing, bouncy, peppy, spirited, zippyadjective

   marked by lively action

   "a bouncing gait"; "bouncy tunes"; "the peppy and interesting talk"; "a spirited dance"

   Synonyms:
   spanking, gamey, resilient, lively, gamy, spunky, snappy, bouncy, game, rattling, enlivened, peppy, merry, gritty, live, zippy, bouncing, springy, brisk, mettlesome, alert

   Antonyms:
   heartless, bloodless, unanimated, thin, cowardly, fearful, dull, spiritless, dispirited, listless, apathetic

3. game, gamy, gamey, gritty, mettlesome, spirited, spunkyadjective

   willing to face danger

   Synonyms:
   lame, zippy, spicy, granulose, high, gamy, racy, spunky, gimpy, juicy, feisty, blue, mettlesome, coarse-grained, crippled, risque, granular, mealy, bouncy, naughty, gamey, halting, gritty, peppy, enlivened, halt, grainy, bouncing, farinaceous, plucky, game

   Antonyms:
   unanimated, spiritless, dispirited, thin, listless, bloodless, apathetic, heartless, fearful, cowardly, dull

4. enlivened, spiritedadjective

   made lively or spirited

   "a meal enlivened by the music"; "a spirited debate"

   Synonyms:
   enlivened, mettlesome, bouncy, gamy, zippy, bouncing, gritty, gamey, spunky, peppy, game

   Antonyms:
   listless, thin, spiritless, heartless, dispirited, cowardly, apathetic, bloodless, dull, unanimated, fearful

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1. spiritedadjective

   Synonyms:
   animated, lively, vivacious, sprightly, ardent, earnest, active, alert, high-mettled, high-spirited, full of spirit, full of life

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1. spiritedadjective

   Synonyms:
   animated, lively, ardent, mettlesome, fervent, passionate

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1. List of paraphrases for "spirited":

   feisty, animated, plucky, lively, brash, fiery

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How to use spirited in a sentence?

1. Molly Norris:

   I didn't mean for my satirical poster to be taken seriously, it became kind of an excuse for people to hate or be mean-spirited. I'm not mean-spirited.

2. Goldoni:

   Laughing is peculiar to man, but all men do not laugh for the same reason. There is the attic salt which springs from the charm in the words, from the flash of wit, from the spirited and brilliant sally. There is the low joke which arises from scurrility and idle conceit.

3. Lee Michaels:

   Her demeanor inside the radio station complemented what was on the blog. Mean-spirited, very edgy, negative personality in her writing.

4. Scott Allen:

   This is not a story about people in these facilities not caring about children. ... It is about good people trying to keep children safe in an environment that's very dangerous to them by design, if not intent. And they've been asked to execute deeply flawed and I would even say mean-spirited policies, and to do so in such a way that minimizes harms to children, it's an impossible task.

5. Joseph Pulitzer:

   An able, disinterested, public-spirited press, with trained intelligence to know the right and courage to do it, can preserve that public virtue without which popular government is a sham and a mockery. A cynical, mercenary, demagogic press will produce in time a people as base as itself.