Definition of "high-spirited"
high-spirited
adjective
comparative more high-spirited, superlative most high-spirited
Quotations
Energetic, exuberant, or high-strung.
Quotations
Though she was nineteen she gave the effect of a high-spirited precocious child, and in the present glow of her youth and beauty all the men and women she had known were but driftwood on the ripples of her temperament.
1920 May 27, F[rancis] Scott Fitzgerald, “The Offshore Pirate”, in Flappers and Philosophers, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, published September 1920, part III, page 16