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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (1)

1. moving quickly and lightly;
- Example: "sleek and agile as a gymnast"
- Example: "as nimble as a deer"
- Example: "nimble fingers"
- Example: "quick of foot"
- Example: "the old dog was so spry it was halfway up the stairs before we could stop it"
[syn: agile, nimble, quick, spry]



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Spry \Spry\ (spr[imac]), a. [Compar. Sprier or Spryer
   (-[~e]r); superl. Spriest or Spryest.] [Cf. dial. Sw.
   sprygg lively, skittish, and E. sprag.]
   Having great power of leaping or running; nimble; active.
   [U.S. & Local Eng.]
   [1913 Webster]

         She is as spry as a cricket.             --S. Judd
                                                  (Margaret).
   [1913 Webster]

         If I'm not so large as you,
         You are not so small as I,
         And not half so spry.                    --Emerson.
   [1913 Webster]


U.S. Gazetteer (1990):

Spry, PA (CDP, FIPS 73528)
  Location: 39.91250 N, 76.68753 W
  Population (1990): 4271 (1905 housing units)
  Area: 6.7 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)


Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

61 Moby Thesaurus words for "spry":
   active, activist, activistic, agile, alacritous, alive, animated,
   bouncing, bouncy, breezy, brisk, bubbly, chipper, dispatchful,
   ebullient, effervescent, energetic, expeditious, featly, fleet,
   frisky, full of go, full of life, full of pep, graceful, healthy,
   light, light-footed, live, lively, mercurial, militant,
   neat-fingered, neat-handed, nimble, nimble-footed, peart, peppy,
   perky, pert, prompt, quick, quicksilver, ready, robust, sharp,
   smacking, smart, snappy, sound, spanking, speedy, spirited,
   sprightly, sure-footed, swift, vigorous, vivacious, volant, zingy,
   zippy