Alacrity \A*lac"ri*ty\, n. [L. alacritas, fr. alacer lively,
eager, prob. akin to Gr. ? to drive, Goth. aljan zeal.]
A cheerful readiness, willingness, or promptitude; joyous
activity; briskness; sprightliness; as, the soldiers advanced
with alacrity to meet the enemy.
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I have not that alacrity of spirit,
Nor cheer of mind that I was wont to have. --Shak.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
alacrity
n : liveliness and eagerness; "he accepted with alacrity" [syn:
briskness]
WordNet (r) 2.0
95 Moby Thesaurus words for "alacrity":
abruptness, acquiescence, agility, agreeability, agreeableness,
amenability, animation, anxiety, anxiousness, appetite, ardor,
avidity, avidness, breathless impatience, briskness,
cheerful consent, cheerful readiness, compliance, consent,
cooperativeness, decisiveness, dispatch, docility, eagerness, elan,
enthusiasm, expedition, expeditiousness, favorable disposition,
favorableness, fervor, feverishness, forwardness, furiousness,
gameness, goodwill, gust, gusto, hastiness, heartiness,
hurriedness, immediacy, immediateness, impatience, impetuosity,
impetuousness, impulsiveness, instantaneousness, keen desire,
keenness, life, liveliness, nimbleness, pliability, pliancy,
precipitance, precipitancy, precipitation, precipitousness,
promptitude, promptness, punctuality, punctualness, quickness,
rapidity, rashness, readiness, receptive mood, receptiveness,
receptivity, responsiveness, right mood, sharpness, smartness,
speed, speediness, spirit, spryness, suddenness, summariness,
swiftness, tractability, ungrudgingness, unloathness, unreluctance,
verve, vitality, vivacity, willing ear, willing heart, willingness,
zeal, zealousness, zest, zestfulness
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
briskness, hms alacrity, shannon alacrity murphy, uss alacrity
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