alacrity
alacrity is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 1 sense, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 31 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.A cheerful readiness, willingness, or promptitude; joyous activity; briskness; sprightliness; as, the soldiers advanced with alacrity to meet the enemy. I have not that alacrity of spirit, Nor cheer of mind that I was wont to have. Shak.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Synonyms
Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- aversation
- averseness
- backwardness
- conscience
- delicacy
- demur
- disinclination
- dislike
- dissent
- hesitation
- indifference
- indisposedness
- indisposition
- indocility
- irresolution
- nolition
- nolleity
- obstinacy
- qualm
- readiness
- recoil
- refusal
- reluctance
- renitence
- renitency
- scruple
- scrupulosity
- shrinking
- slowness
- twinge
- want
Source: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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Sources
- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
- Synonyms & antonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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