high spirits

1. 1.

   a feeling of joy and pride

   Synonymselationlightness

   Broaderjoy

   Narrowereuphoria

Questions about high spirits

What does high spirits mean?

high spirits means "a feeling of joy and pride".

What is another word for high spirits?

Close synonyms include elation, lightness. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is high spirits a common word?

high spirits is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.