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spiritish

spiritish adjective: resembling a spirit in character, quality, or appearance; spiritlike; spiritly.

Adjective

spiritish (comparative more spiritish, superlative most spiritish)

  1. Resembling a spirit in character, quality, or appearance; spiritlike; spiritly.
    • She flitted around the omnibus in a spiritish dance of joy. “Gone where?” Grey asked, before sharing the news with the living persons on the bus. Don't know, don't care.2009, Gail Dayton, Heart's Blood

Forms of spiritish

comparativemore spiritish
superlativemost spiritish

Origin of spiritish

From spirit + -ish.

Questions about spiritish

What does spiritish mean?
Spiritish means resembling a spirit in character, quality, or appearance; spiritlike; spiritly.
What part of speech is spiritish?
Spiritish is an adjective.

Words near spiritish in the dictionary

  1. spiritic
  2. spiriting
  3. spiriting away
  4. spiriting off
  5. spiritings
  6. spiritish
  7. spiritism
  8. spiritisms
  9. spiritist
  10. spiritistic
  11. spiritists

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