SNAPPY

alert, brisk, lively, merry, rattling, snappy, spanking, zippy

(adjective) quick and energetic; “a brisk walk in the park”; “a lively gait”; “a merry chase”; “traveling at a rattling rate”; “a snappy pace”; “a spanking breeze”

dapper, dashing, jaunty, natty, raffish, rakish, spiffy, snappy, spruce

(adjective) marked by up-to-dateness in dress and manners; “a dapper young man”; “a jaunty red hat”

snappish, snappy

(adjective) apt to speak irritably; “a snappish tone of voice”

crisp, frosty, nipping, nippy, snappy

(adjective) pleasantly cold and invigorating; “crisp clear nights and frosty mornings”; “a nipping wind”; “a nippy fall day”; “snappy weather”

snappy, whipping

(adjective) smart and fashionable; “snappy conversation”; “some sharp and whipping lines”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Adjective

snappy (comparative snappier, superlative snappiest)

(informal) Rapid and without delay.

(informal) Irritable.

(informal) Tidy; well-dressed; sharp.

Chilly, brisk, sharp.

Synonyms

• (rapid and without delay): fast, immediate, quick

• (irritable): irritable, peevish, testy, tetchy

Source: Wiktionary


Snap"py, a.

Definition: Snappish. [Colloq.]

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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Word of the Day

25 December 2024

UNAMBIGUOUS

(adjective) having or exhibiting a single clearly defined meaning; “As a horror, apartheid...is absolutely unambiguous”- Mario Vargas Llosa


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Coffee Trivia

According to Guinness World Records, on 25 September 2016, the Birla Institute of Management Technology (India) in Uttar Pradesh, India, constructed the largest coffee cups pyramid consisting of 23,821 cups. They used paper takeaway coffee cups to build the pyramid.

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