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- Dictionaryspry/sprʌɪ/
adjective
- 1. (especially of an old person) active; lively: "he continued to look spry and active well into his eighties"
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SPRY definition: 1. (especially of older people) active and able to move quickly and energetically: 2. (especially…. Learn more.
: able to move quickly, easily, and lightly : nimble sense 1used especially to describe an older person. a spry 75-year-old. … his spry libidinous grandfather … Stanley Kauffmann. Matthew is getting up in years, you know—he's sixty—and he isn't so spry as he once was. Charles Keller. spryly adverb. … hopping spryly onto a treadmill. Heather King.
The most common use of spry is to describe people who are aging. You might say that at 92, your great grandmother is still spry and sharp as a tack. Spry refers to her physical well-being; "sharp as a tack" to her mental faculties.
adj. spri·er (sprī′ər), spri·est (sprī′ĭst) or spry·er or spry·est. Lively, active, and brisk; vigorous. [Perhaps of Scandinavian origin; akin to Swedish dialectal sprygg, brisk.] spry′ly adv. spry′ness n. American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition.
SPRY meaning: 1. (especially of older people) active and able to move quickly and energetically: 2. (especially…. Learn more.
Someone, especially an old person, who is spry, is lively and active. The old gentleman was as spry as ever. Synonyms: active, sprightly, lively, quick More Synonyms of spry. Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner’s Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers.
Spry definition: active; nimble; agile; energetic; brisk.. See examples of SPRY used in a sentence.
Definition of spry adjective in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
Meaning & use. Pronunciation. Forms. Frequency. Compounds & derived words. Factsheet. What does the word spry mean? There are four meanings listed in OED's entry for the word spry. See ‘Meaning & use’ for definitions, usage, and quotation evidence. Entry status.
spry / ˈ spraɪ/ adjective. sprier or spryer / ˈsprajɚ/ ; spriest or spryest / ˈsprajəst/. Britannica Dictionary definition of SPRY. : full of life and energy — used especially to describe an older person. She's 64 and still as spry as she was at 30.
