Crossword-Solution: ALACRITY
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| 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 |
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| 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
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Hint 2 anagram
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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.
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.
Yet, considering his own interest in the matter, he might have bestirred himself with a little more alacrity.
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.
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.
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…
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…
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.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Crossroads, LAT, Newsday, NYT, WP.
Used 8 times in crossword archives (1959–2018).