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spright

/spɹaɪt/

spright noun: spirit; mind; soul; state of mind; mood.

Noun

spright (plural sprights)

  1. (obsolete) Spirit; mind; soul; state of mind; mood.
    • Well may I ween, your grief is wondrous great; / For wondrous great griefe groneth in my ſpright, / Whiles thus I heare you of your ſorrowes treat.1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 40, page 100
    • Who comming to that ſowle-diſeaſed knight, / Could hardly him intreat, to tell his grief: / Which knowne, and all that noyd his heauie ſpright, / Well ſearcht, eftſoones he gan apply relief.1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 24, page 141
  2. (obsolete) A supernatural being; a spirit; a shade; an apparition; a ghost.
    • And forth he cald out of deepe darknes dredd / Legions of Sprights, the which like litle flyes / Fluttring about his euerdamned hedd, [...]1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 38, page 13
    • To thee, O Father, Sonne, and ſacred Spright. / One true, eternall, euerlaſting king, / To Chriſtes deere mother Marie virgin bright, / Pſalmes of thankeſgiuing and of praiſe they ſing, [...]1600, [Torquato Tasso], “The Eleuenth Booke of Godfrey of Bulloigne”, in Edward Fairefax [i.e., Edward Fairfax], transl., Godfrey of Bulloigne, or The Recouerie of Ierusalem. […], London: […]...
  3. (obsolete) A kind of short arrow.

Verb

spright (third-person singular simple present sprights, present participle sprighting, simple past and past participle sprighted)

  1. (obsolete) To haunt.
    • I am sprighted with a fool ;
      Frighted , and anger'd worse1611 April (first recorded performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Cymbeline”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard...

spright meaning in Bengali

spright in Bengali

আত্মা, মন, প্রাণ, মানসিক অবস্থা, মেজাজ, একটি অলৌকিক প্রাণী

Forms of spright

Noun
pluralsprights
Verb
third-person singular presentsprights
present participlesprighting
past participlesprighted
pastsprighted

Origin of spright

Unetymological spelling of sprite. Doublet of spirit, spiritus, spirytus, sprite, and esprit.

Words formed from spright

Words that rhyme with spright

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Questions about spright

What does spright mean?
Spright means spirit; mind; soul; state of mind; mood.
What is spright in Bengali?
Spright in Bengali is আত্মা, মন, প্রাণ. See Spright meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is spright?
Spright can be a noun or a verb.
How do you pronounce spright?
Spright is pronounced /spɹaɪt/.
What is the plural of spright?
The plural of spright is sprights.

Words near spright in the dictionary

  1. spriggings
  2. spriggite
  3. Spriggs
  4. Spriggses
  5. spriggy
  6. spright
  7. sprighted
  8. sprightful
  9. sprightfully
  10. sprightfulness
  11. sprighting

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: spright (page history and authors); spright (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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