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spryness

Meaning of "spryness" in the English dictionary

DICTIONARY

PRONUNCIATION OF SPRYNESS

ˈspraɪnəs


GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF SPRYNESS

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Spryness is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES SPRYNESS MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of spryness in the English dictionary

The definition of spryness in the dictionary is the quality of being active and brisk.



WORDS THAT RHYME WITH SPRYNESS

Antoninus · Aquinas · Delphinus · echinus · erinus · Flamininus · Gambrinus · interspinous · Linus · Longinus · minus · nighness · Ninus · Paulinus · Plotinus · Quirinus · shiness · sinus · spinous · vinous

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE SPRYNESS

sprog · sprout · sprouts · spruce · spruce beer · spruce grouse · spruce pine · spruce up · sprucely · spruceness · sprue · sprug · spruik · spruiker · spruit · sprung · sprung rhythm · spry · spryly · spt

WORDS THAT END LIKE SPRYNESS

business · busyness · cageyness · coyness · dopeyness · dryness · everydayness · farawayness · gayness · glueyness · gooeyness · greyness · hokeyness · homeyness · mateyness · sameyness · shyness · slyness · uppityness · vaginal dryness · wryness

Synonyms and antonyms of spryness in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «spryness» into 25 languages

TRANSLATOR

TRANSLATION OF SPRYNESS

Find out the translation of spryness to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of spryness from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «spryness» in English.
zh

Translator English - Chinese

spryness
1,325 millions of speakers
es

Translator English - Spanish

spryness
570 millions of speakers
en

English

spryness
510 millions of speakers
hi

Translator English - Hindi

spryness
380 millions of speakers
ar

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spryness
280 millions of speakers
ru

Translator English - Russian

spryness
278 millions of speakers
pt

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spryness
270 millions of speakers
bn

Translator English - Bengali

spryness
260 millions of speakers
fr

Translator English - French

spryness
220 millions of speakers
ms

Translator English - Malay

Spryness
190 millions of speakers
de

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spryness
180 millions of speakers
ja

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spryness
130 millions of speakers
ko

Translator English - Korean

spryness
85 millions of speakers
jv

Translator English - Javanese

Spryness
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

spryness
80 millions of speakers
ta

Translator English - Tamil

spryness
75 millions of speakers
mr

Translator English - Marathi

स्प्रिंगनेस
75 millions of speakers
tr

Translator English - Turkish

spryness
70 millions of speakers
it

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spryness
65 millions of speakers
pl

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spryness
50 millions of speakers
uk

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spryness
40 millions of speakers
ro

Translator English - Romanian

spryness
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

ευκινησία
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

spryness
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

spryness
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

spryness
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of spryness

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «SPRYNESS»

Principal search tendencies and common uses of spryness
List of principal searches undertaken by users to access our English online dictionary and most widely used expressions with the word «spryness».

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about spryness

EXAMPLES

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SPRYNESS»

Discover the use of spryness in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to spryness and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Gray Matter: Why It's Good to Be Old!
A little rage in your age? We've got just the book for you! Photographer Bob Elsdale has found an extremely unlikely source of inspiration for this irresistible book on the joys of aging-some enormous but very agile elephants.
Bob Elsdale, 2006
2
My Name Escapes Me: The Diary of a Retiring Actor
Covering the year 1995 up to the summer of 1996, the distinguished English actor offers a collection of spontaneous reflections on the theater, books and art, the church, gatherings with famous friends, and the English countryside
Alec Guinness, 1998
3
Supreme Court Appellate Division - Third Judicial Department
Q. We were talking of the quality of spryness? A. I was speaking of physical spryness rather than mental spryness. ' That remark is as to his physical spryness ? Yes. His mind is impaired is it not? I will swear that I saw none. That is as far as you ...
4
The myth of the golden years: a socio-environmental theory ...
Allegedly unusual agility or expertise is then congratulated as an example of a rare spryness. Finally, as the performer bows away from the stage, comments are made that have the combined tone of moralizing and glib wishes, expressing the  ...
Jaber F. Gubrium, 1973
5
Afterlands
W'ith a new spryness, maybe a sign of faltering nerve, the man nears the bull as it puffs and lurches, eyes rolling, left foreleg flared out and held taut by the line. The man hacks at the line, rushing the effort, needing several blows to finish.
Steven Heighton, 2010
6
The Thirteenth Unicorn
Dressed in tattered rags and stooped with the weight of years upon his shoulders the old man, clutching an armful of moldy parchments to his chest, moved through the clutter in the cottage with a spryness that belied his age. His gray hair  ...
W. D. Newman, 2011
7
Zyrian texts
... 2) Zyrian holiday customs and games, and 3) the life of Zyrian agricultural workers. M. I. Baraksanova proved to be an intelligent relator. Despite her advanced age she has retained her intellectual spryness. When remembering earlier times ...
Károly Rédei, 1996
8
Rethinking Contemporary Art and Multicultural Education
Shot on 16mm black-and-white—the same medium that immortalized him in andy Warhol's first film, Sleep (1963)—Giorno appears in his famed Bowery loft, reciting his work with a spryness and vigor that belies his seventy-two years.
New Museum,, 2011
9
Rashi's Daughters, Book II: Miriam: A Novel of Love and the ...
As the servants hurried to greet him, he was relieved to see no signs of grief on their faces. fitienne, the manor's steward since Meshullam's childhood, ran with a young man's spryness to help the young lord dismount. "How is he?" Meshullam  ...
Maggie Anton, 2007
10
The Great Bordello: A Story of the Theatre
He looked ill and shaken, even more so than when she had last seen him, in New York. “Oh, yes—yes,” he protested cheerily, when she remarked that he still did not seem quite recovered. He kept jerking about, with exaggerated spryness,  ...
Avery Hopwood, Jack F. Sharrar, 2011

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SPRYNESS»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term spryness is used in the context of the following news items.
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'Ant-Man' stepped on by Marvel colossus
... Cassie (Abby Ryder Forston), and for paying child support to his ex-wife (Judy Greer). But spryness or any much purpose, at all, is missing from these scenes. «Bloomington Pantagraph, Jul 15»
2
'Ant-Man' is smaller but still not fun size
But spryness (an essential quality for any movie about an insect superhero), or any purpose at all, is missing from these scenes. The movie is too controlled for ... «Centennial Citizen, Jul 15»
3
Figaro: comedy travestied into farce
Also, one wants good rhythm and spryness in Nozze, but not constant movement, often mixing ridiculous dancing. Susanna is the Countess' maid and she is ... «Buenos Aires Herald, Jul 15»
4
Movie review: Marvel's Ant-Man with Paul Rudd is smaller, but still …
But spryness (an essential quality for any movie about an insect superhero) or any much purpose, at all, is missing from these scenes. The movie is too ... «TheChronicleHerald.ca, Jul 15»
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Review: Marvel's 'Ant-Man' is smaller but still not fun size
But spryness (an essential quality for any movie about an insect superhero) or any much purpose, at all, is missing from these scenes. The movie is too ... «Salon, Jul 15»
6
"Terminator Genisys," Reviewed: Metal Fatigue.
It's meant to refer to the T-800 specifically, of course, and also offers a meta-commentary on the spryness of Schwarzenegger himself, who looks pretty hale for a ... «Corning Leader, Jul 15»
7
Staying nimble amid competition is vital
However, he urged them "not to have a ready set of skills so that you can plug in and straightaway you can work, but to be able to have that spryness in an ... «The Straits Times, Jun 15»
8
The merits of squishy cake
And it starts with the fact that, with its surprising spring and spryness, it is inhalable. See, on the chart of Words Often Used to Describe Cake, "squishy" — the ... «The Week Magazine, Apr 15»
9
Chiefs receiver Dwayne Bowe jokingly credits wristband for …
However, the 30-year jokingly credited his newfound spryness to a wristband he says he purchased in a mall in Arizona a week ago. “I think I'm wearing this ... «Kansas City Star, Dec 14»
10
Condo of the Week: $330000 for a design-friendly loft in Briar Hill
Possible Deal Breaker: Though the lofted bed creates a lot more floor space, it may exclude some older potential buyers who lack the necessary spryness. «Toronto Life, Dec 14»
REFERENCE
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