in good spirits

1. 1.

   without losing equilibrium

   “she took all his criticism in stride”

   Synonymsin stride

Questions about in good spirits

What does in good spirits mean?

in good spirits means "without losing equilibrium".

What is another word for in good spirits?

Close synonyms include in stride. 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 in good spirits a common word?

in good 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.