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IN HIGH SPIRITS
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Happy and excited and energetic
Synonyms:
high; in high spirits
Classified under:
Similar:
elated (exultantly proud and joyful; in high spirits)
Context examples:
The young detective was in high spirits at his success.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
It was hardly possible, indeed, that anything else should be talked of, for Mrs. Norris was in high spirits about it; and Mrs. Rushworth, a well-meaning, civil, prosing, pompous woman, who thought nothing of consequence, but as it related to her own and her son's concerns, had not yet given over pressing Lady Bertram to be of the party.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
He was in high spirits, doing everything with happy ease, and preeminent in all the lively turns, quick resources, and playful impudence that could do honour to the game; and the round table was altogether a very comfortable contrast to the steady sobriety and orderly silence of the other.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
