Crossword-Solution: ALACRITY 8 letters, 96 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 13

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Word Word Type Definition
Alacrity n. A cheerful readiness, willingness, or promptitude; joyous
activity; briskness; sprightliness; as, the soldiers advanced with
alacrity to meet the enemy.

We have 96 clues for the answer “ALACRITY”

Clue Answers
liveliness and eagerness 1 answer
Promptness + joy 1 answer
Eager readiness 1 answer
Eager quickness. 1 answer
Cheerful willingness 1 answer
CHEERFUL readiness 1 answer
Lively enthusiasm 2 answers
activeness 10 answers
agility 18 answers
gaining velocity 24 answers
picking up speed 26 answers
gaining momentum 26 answers
hotting up 26 answers
overactivity 26 answers
speeding up 27 answers
stepping up 27 answers
Vector 27 answers
picking up 28 answers
punctuality 42 answers
shortness 43 answers
rapidness 43 answers
Swiftness 43 answers
hurriedness 43 answers
impetuousness 43 answers
fleetness 44 answers
GOOD humor/humour 44 answers
abruptness 44 answers
vigorousness 45 answers
terseness 45 answers
Hastening 46 answers
forthrightness 46 answers
brevity 46 answers
scramble 47 answers
briskness 49 answers
Quickness 49 answers
Openness 51 answers
High Spirits 52 answers
perturbation 53 answers
Velocity 53 answers
frankness 53 answers
ingenuousness 56 answers
acceleration 56 answers
vivaciousness 57 answers
expeditiousness 58 answers
hastiness 59 answers
Precipitation 59 answers
sprightliness 59 answers
volatility 59 answers
airiness 60 answers
Quickening 61 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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greedy person
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Sentences with ALACRITY (5)

Mighty was their fuss about little matters, and marvellous, sometimes, the obtuseness that allowed greater ones to slip between their fingers! Whenever such a mischance occurred—when a waggon-load of valuable merchandise had been smuggled ashore, at noonday, perhaps, and directly beneath their unsuspicious noses—nothing could exceed the vigilance and alacrity with which they proceeded to lock, and double-lock, and secure with tape and sealing-wax, all the avenues of the delinquent vessel.
The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne 1992
Why don’t you marry? As for me, just because I can’t marry, I find the world full of charming, unattached women, any one of whom I could fit up a house for with alacrity.” “You’re more knowing than I.” Archie spoke politely.
The Song of the Lark Willa Cather 1992
Yet, considering his own interest in the matter, he might have bestirred himself with a little more alacrity.
The House of the Seven Gables Nathaniel Hawthorne 1993
Sternman, is to bring us up to speed on computer viruses, which you have done with alacrity, and we appreciate that." Rickfield held seniority, but Nancy Deere took charge due to her preparation.
Terminal Compromise Winn Schwartau 1993
Run on now, out into the fresh air where you may breathe easier.” Some of the warriors started to obey their chief with alacrity, but Busuli and several others hesitated to leave him—hesitated between love and loyalty for their king, and superstitious fear of the unknown.
The Return of Tarzan Edgar Rice Burroughs 1993

Quotes with ALACRITY (3)

This American government — what is it but a tradition, though a recent one, endeavoring to transmit itself unimpaired to posterity, but each instant losing some of its integrity? It has not the vitality and force of a single living man; for a single man can bend it to his will. It is a sort of wooden gun to the people themselves. But it is not the less necessary for this; for the people must have some complicated machinery or other, and hear its din, to satisfy that idea of g…
Henry David Thoreau Civil Disobedience
When I fight off a disease bent on my cellular destruction, when I marvelously distribute energy and collect waste with astonishing alacrity even in my most seemingly fatigued moments, when I slip on ice and gyrate crazily but do not fall, when I unconsciously counter-steer my way into a sharp bicycle turn, taking advantage of physics I do not understand using a technique I am not even aware of using, when I somehow catch the dropped oranges before I know I've dropped them, w…
Brian Christian The Most Human Human: What Talking with Computers Teaches Us About What It Means to Be Alive
When the fuel is dried up in a vehicle, it stops driving automatically. You are a vehicle in the spiritual and the physical world, so you need some oil for alacrity, in order to get to your destination. The greater the quantity of your oil, the more you cover the distance, and the more you cover the distance, the closer you get to your success.
Michael Bassey Johnson
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Appears in: Crossroads, LAT, Newsday, NYT, WP.

Used 8 times in crossword archives (1959–2018).