Word Meanings - SPRINGY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Resembling, having the qualities of, or pertaining to, a spring; elastic; as, springy steel; a springy step. Though her little frame was slight, it was firm and springy. Sir W. Scott. 2. Abounding with springs or fountains; wet; spongy; as,

Additional info about word: SPRINGY

1. Resembling, having the qualities of, or pertaining to, a spring; elastic; as, springy steel; a springy step. Though her little frame was slight, it was firm and springy. Sir W. Scott. 2. Abounding with springs or fountains; wet; spongy; as, springy land.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of SPRINGY)

• Elastic
• Ductile
• extensile
• alterable
• resilient
• modifiable
• flexible
• buoyant
• springy

Related words: (words related to SPRINGY)

• RESILIENT
  Leaping back; rebounding; recoling.
• SPRINGY
  1. Resembling, having the qualities of, or pertaining to, a spring; elastic; as, springy steel; a springy step. Though her little frame was slight, it was firm and springy. Sir W. Scott. 2. Abounding with springs or fountains; wet; spongy; as,
• DUCTILE
  1. Easily led; tractable; complying; yielding to motives, persuasion, or instruction; as, a ductile people. Addison. Forms their ductile minds To human virtues. Philips. 2. Capable of being elongated or drawn out, as into wire or threads. Gold
• ELASTIC
  1. Springing back; having a power or inherent property of returning to the form from which a substance is bent, drawn, pressed, or twisted; springy; having the power of rebounding; as, a bow is elastic; the air is elastic; India rubber is elastic.
• FLEXIBLE
  1. Capable of being flexed or bent; admitting of being turned, bowed, or twisted, without breaking; pliable; yielding to pressure; not stiff or brittle. When the splitting wind Makes flexible the knees of knotted oaks. Shak. 2. Willing or ready
• ELASTICITY
  1. The quality of being elastic; the inherent property in bodies by which they recover their former figure or dimensions, after the removal of external pressure or altering force; springiness; tendency to rebound; as, the elasticity of caoutchouc;
• ALTERABLE
  Capable of being altered. Our condition in this world is mutable and uncertain, alterable by a thousand accidents. Rogers.
• ELASTICALLY
  In an elastic manner; by an elastic power; with a spring.
• MODIFIABLE
  Capable of being modified; liable to modification.
• EXTENSILE
  Suited for, or capable of, extension; extensible. Owen.
• ELASTICNESS
  The quality of being elastic; elasticity.
• ELASTICAL
  Elastic. Bentley.
• ALTERABLENESS
  The quality of being alterable; variableness; alterability.
• BUOYANT
  1. Having the quality of rising or floating in a fluid; tending to rise or float; as, iron is buoyant in mercury. "Buoyant on the flood." Pope. 2. Bearing up, as a fluid; sustaining another body by being specifically heavier. The water under me
• IRRESILIENT
  Not resilient; not recoiling or rebounding; inelastic.
• UNELASTICITY
  Inelasticity.
• UNFLEXIBLE
  Inflexible.
• INFLEXIBLE
  1. Not capable of being bent; stiff; rigid; firm; unyielding. 2. Firm in will or purpose; not to be turned, changed, or altered; resolute; determined; unyieding; inexorable; stubborn. "Inflexibleas steel." Miltom. Amanof upright and inflexibletemper
• INELASTICITY
  Want of elasticity.
• PRODUCTILE
  Capable of being extended or prolonged; extensible; ductile.
• INALTERABLE
  Not alterable; incapable of being altered or changed; unalterable. -- In*al"ter*a*ble*ness, n. -- In*al"ter*a*bly, adv.
• GELASTIC
  Pertaining to laughter; used in laughing. "Gelastic muscles." Sir T. Browne.
• NONEXTENSILE
  Not extensile; incapable of being stretched.
• INELASTIC
  Not elastic.
• INFLEXIBLENESS
  The quality or state of being inflexible; inflexibility; rigidity; firmness.