What's the difference between lively and sprightly?

Lively


Definition:

  • (superl.) Endowed with or manifesting life; living.
  • (superl.) Brisk; vivacious; active; as, a lively youth.
  • (superl.) Gay; airy; animated; spirited.
  • (superl.) Representing life; lifelike.
  • (superl.) Bright; vivid; glowing; strong; vigorous.
  • (adv.) In a brisk, active, or animated manner; briskly; vigorously.
  • (adv.) With strong resemblance of life.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) However, as other patients who lived at the periphery of the Valserine valley do not appear to be related to any patients living in the valley, and because there has been considerable immigration into the valley, a number of hypotheses to explain the distribution of the disease in the region remain possible.
  • (2) For some time now, public opinion polls have revealed Americans' strong preference to live in comparatively small cities, towns, and rural areas rather than in large cities.
  • (3) It afflicted 312,000 people and claimed 3200 lives.
  • (4) "As the investigation remains live and in order to preserve the integrity of that investigation, it would not be appropriate to offer further comment."
  • (5) In this article we report the survival and morbidity rates for all live-born infants weighing 501 to 1000 gram at birth and born to residents of a defined geographic region from 1977 to 1980 (n = 255) compared with 1981 to 1984 (n = 266).
  • (6) An “out” vote would severely disrupt our lives, in an economic sense and a private sense.
  • (7) This time is approximately six months for the neuroleptics given orally, one month for antidepressants, and five and a half half-lives for benzodiazepines.
  • (8) Since 1987, it has become possible to obtain immature ova from the living animal and to let them mature, fertilize and develop into embryos capable of transplantation outside the body.
  • (9) The origins of aging of higher forms of life, particularly humans, is presented as the consequence of an evolved balance between 4 specific kinds of dysfunction-producing events and 4 kinds of evolved counteracting effects in long-lived forms.
  • (10) Issues such as healthcare and the NHS, food banks, energy and the general cost of living were conspicuous by their absence.
  • (11) Q In radioactive decay, different materials decay at different rates, giving different half lives.
  • (12) We are pursuing legal action because there are still so many unanswered questions about the viability of Shenhua’s proposed koala plan and it seems at this point the plan does not guarantee the survival of the estimated 262 koalas currently living where Shenhua wants to put its mine,” said Ranclaud.
  • (13) Several interpretations of the results are examined including the possibility that the effects of Valium use were short-lived rather than long-term and that Valium may have been taken in anticipation of anxiety rather than after its occurrence.
  • (14) Perelman is currently unemployed and lives a frugal life with his mother in St Petersburg.
  • (15) What we’re doing is designed to improve people’s lives.” "I don't see race, colour or creed, and neither do my children," he added.
  • (16) "We do not yet live in a society where the police or any other officers of the law are entitled to detain people without reasonable justification and demand their papers," Gardiner wrote.
  • (17) However, he has also insisted that North Korea live up to its own commitments, adhere to its international obligations and deal peacefully with its neighbours.
  • (18) Hemoglobin British Columbia was found in an East Indian living in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
  • (19) It became just like a soap opera: "When Brookside started it was about Scousers living next to each other and in five years' time there were bombs going off and three people buried under the patio."
  • (20) The Coalition promises to add more misery to their lives.

Sprightly


Definition:

  • (superl.) Sprightlike, or spiritlike; lively; brisk; animated; vigorous; airy; gay; as, a sprightly youth; a sprightly air; a sprightly dance.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The gloom was soon to build when five minutes after the interval Giggs won a corner with a sprightly run.
  • (2) Charles Pooter, a man with a biography, a face, a surname, and even a proper wife and a degree of affection for his none to noteworthy existence, gives a sprightly and daily account of his own life in the form of a diary.
  • (3) Blatter will be a sprightly 94 years old by then, so if you think his judgement's gone now, it'll be very interesting to see what modernist masterpiece he commissions when the task finally needs sorting.
  • (4) Stuck between the cultist Friends of Radio 3 and Global Radio’s sprightly three-times-the-size Classic FM, the network vacillates between populist copying and public service broadcasting stodge.
  • (5) Photograph: Mimi Mollica for the Guardian Antonino Vaccarino, a sprightly, bespectacled 68-year-old, today runs a small cinema in the back streets of town, but once served as mayor before being jailed for five years for mafia membership – on the basis, he claims, of false accusations made by a turncoat.
  • (6) Buffon does not look especially sprightly as he comes for it but manages to punch it to safety.
  • (7) In Aronofsky's film, Crowe takes the title role of the man said to be around 600 at the time of the flood, while Hopkins is Methuselah, who was a sprightly 969.
  • (8) From the outset, Arsenal had been the more sprightly and inventive, and that pattern continued when Cesc Fábregas clipped a dainty ball over the Spurs defence for Nasri to chase.
  • (9) Excerpts from the diary show him to be a liberal-minded man and one fond of the company of young people; and show Betty to be a sprightly young Quakeress, buffeted by emotional conflicts between loyalty to her north-country fiance and her flirtation with young Dr. John Coakley Lettsom.
  • (10) Judy was under five feet tall, a sprightly figure, vivacious and pretty rather than beautiful, her pale skin accentuated by the bright red of her lips in the old three-strip Technicolor.
  • (11) He is a sprightly, bearded Dubliner of 48 who has a plumbing business called Associated Response and wears its uniform every day in the dock, as he is still doing work in the evenings and at weekends.
  • (12) A few weeks later, we meet at a photographic studio in east London: the sun is shining, Radcliffe's cough has gone, and he looks more sprightly than ever.
  • (13) There may be something in that, but many observers believe it has simply been a matter of the sprightly Martial finally persuading a somewhat stubborn manager that it does not make sense to have Rooney as first point of attack any more.
  • (14) National anthems: We all know them by now and Uruguay's remains more lovable - a sprightly number with menacing undertones.
  • (15) With Cameron Jerome well shackled by Daniel Ayala it was the sinuous runs of the sprightly Wes Hoolahan that offered Norwich’s most likely route to an equaliser.
  • (16) Messages with identical content (the same script and visual shot sequence) were made in two forms: child program forms (animated film, second-person address, and character voice narration with sprightly music) and adult program forms (live photography, third-person address, and adult male narration with sedate background music).
  • (17) Begovic had to be more sprightly in the 18th minute to turn away a curling effort from the edge of the area by Willian.
  • (18) I want to swim until I turn 105 if I can live that long,” the sprightly Nagaoka told Kyodo News.
  • (19) For the first time this season, the odd sprightly period of the occasional game aside, José Mourinho witnessed his side impose themselves on a contest, dominate for lengthy periods, and revel in clear superiority.
  • (20) Among most cases, the less sprightly life is dominant around preadolescence, which affects the orientation of psychopathology in adolescence.