high spirits
high spirits noun: joyous elation, joyfulness, joyousness.
Noun
high spirits pl (plural only)
- Joyous elation, joyfulness, joyousness.
- They stayed together during three dances, went out on to the terrace, explored wherever they were permitted to explore, paid two visits to the buffet, and enjoyed themselves much in the same way as if they had been school-children surreptitiously breaking loose from an assembly of grown-ups. The...1909 September 9, Archibald Marshall [pseudonym; Arthur Hammond Marshall], “A Court Ball”, in The Squire’s Daughter, London: Methuen & Co. […], →OCLC, page 9
- Apart from yachting and the cross-Channel steamer it was her first experience of being at sea and she was in high spirits.2000, Mary S. Lovell, A Rage to Live: A Biography of Richard and Isabel Burton, W. W. Norton & Company, →ISBN, page 415
- Synonyms:
- jolliness, jollity, blitheness, blithesomeness, cheerfulness, cheeriness, contentness, contentedness, delight, delightedness
- Antonyms:
- low spirits, blueness, tristesse, mirthless, blues, crestfallenness, dejection, depression, despondency, distress
high spirits meaning in Malayalam
high spirits in Malayalam
- vitality, liveliness, spirit
- ഉത്സാഹത്തിമിർപ്പ്, മാനസികോല്ലാസത്തിമിർപ്പ്, സചേതനത്വം, പ്രസരിപ്പ്, ഉന്മേഷം, വലിയ സന്തോഷം
Synonyms of high spirits
- jolliness
- jollity
- blitheness
- blithesomeness
- cheerfulness
- cheeriness
- contentness
- contentedness
- delight
- delightedness
26 more synonymsFewer synonyms
Antonyms
- low spirits
- blueness
- tristesse
- mirthless
- blues
- crestfallenness
- dejection
- depression
- despondency
- distress
10 more antonymsFewer antonyms
Questions about high spirits
- What does high spirits mean?
- High spirits means joyous elation, joyfulness, joyousness.
- What is high spirits in Malayalam?
- High spirits in Malayalam is ഉത്സാഹത്തിമിർപ്പ്, മാനസികോല്ലാസത്തിമിർപ്പ്, സചേതനത്വം. See High spirits meaning in Malayalam.
- What part of speech is high spirits?
- High spirits is a noun.
Words near high spirits in the dictionary
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