IN GOOD SPIRITS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does in good spirits mean? 

• IN GOOD SPIRITS (adverb)
  The adverb IN GOOD SPIRITS has 1 sense:

1. without losing equilibrium

  Familiarity information: IN GOOD SPIRITS used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• IN GOOD SPIRITS (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Without losing equilibrium

Synonyms:

in good spirits; in stride

Context example:

she took all his criticism in stride

 Context examples 

I declared that nobody else should touch it; and this gave Peggotty such delight that she went away in good spirits.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

They returned, therefore, in good spirits to Longbourn, the village where they lived, and of which they were the principal inhabitants.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

We both seem in good spirits; I think we make an effort each to cheer the other; in the doing so we cheer ourselves.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

One summer’s morning a little tailor was sitting on his table by the window; he was in good spirits, and sewed with all his might.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

"What Jo would give for a sight of that famous speck!" said Amy, feeling in good spirits and anxious to see him so also.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Geriatric Depression Scale, Short Form (GDS-SF) Are you in good spirits most of the time?

(GDS-SF - Good Spirits Most of Time, NCI Thesaurus)

I do not say so; but he did not seem in good spirits.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

Geriatric Depression Scale (GDS) Are you in good spirits most of the time?

(GDS - Good Spirits Most of Time, NCI Thesaurus)

I am, however, in good spirits: my men are bold and apparently firm of purpose, nor do the floating sheets of ice that continually pass us, indicating the dangers of the region towards which we are advancing, appear to dismay them.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Was she in good spirits?

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)