springy

[ spring-ee ]
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adjective,spring·i·er, spring·i·est.
  1. characterized by spring or elasticity; flexible; resilient: He walks with a springy step.

  2. (of land) abounding in or having springs of water.

Origin of springy

1
First recorded in 1585–95; spring + -y1

Other words for springy

Other words from springy

  • spring·i·ly, adverb
  • spring·i·ness, noun

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How to use springy in a sentence

  • Occasionally deer by twos and threes bounded springily away, white flags waving.

    Desert Conquest | A. M. Chisholm
  • Then the "drug" caught her, and she seesawed again up into the wind and rode springily.

    Jim Spurling, Fisherman | Albert Walter Tolman
  • You felt that, were you to place your hand on her shoulder, she would resist springily, like a young bough in the woods.

    True and Other Stories | George Parsons Lathrop
  • Monroe still ran springily and with the jauntiness which betokened the practised runner.

    The Boy with the U. S. Weather Men | Francis William Rolt-Wheeler
  • He went up the steps lightly, springily, with a sort of exuberant joy in the mere action.

    The House of Fulfilment | George Madden Martin

British Dictionary definitions for springy

springy

/ (ˈsprɪŋɪ) /


adjectivespringier or springiest
  1. possessing or characterized by resilience or bounce

  2. (of a place) having many wells or springs of water

Derived forms of springy

  • springily, adverb
  • springiness, noun

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