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spriteful

spriteful is the obsolete spelling of sprightful.

Meaning of sprightful

Adjective

sprightful (comparative more sprightful, superlative most sprightful)

  1. sprightly; spirited; lively; animated

Forms of spriteful

comparativemore spriteful
superlativemost spriteful

Origin of spriteful

From sprite + -ful.

Questions about spriteful

What is spriteful the obsolete spelling of?
Spriteful is the obsolete spelling of sprightful.

Words near spriteful in the dictionary

  1. sprite comic
  2. sprite halo
  3. sprite haloes
  4. sprite halos
  5. sprited
  6. spriteful
  7. spritefully
  8. spritefulness
  9. spritehood
  10. spritelier
  11. spriteliest

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Adapted from Wiktionary: spriteful (page history and authors); sprightful (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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