Thesaurus results for SPRITES

sprites

noun

plural of sprite

as in fairies

an imaginary being usually having a small human form and magical powers the child insisted that he'd seen a sprite hiding in the garden

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as in spirits

the soul of a dead person thought of especially as appearing to living people told hair-raising stories of sprites and spectral ships

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Recent Examples of sprites This livestream is well worth a watch, with active chat users often sharing timestamps of meteor sightings and occasionally rarer phenomena like atmospheric sprites! —

Daisy Dobrijevic, Space.com, 21 Apr. 2026 On Friday, April 10, when those winged sprites took to the War Memorial Opera House stage for a seven-performance run, the whole tartan-and-gossamer fable felt more alive than ever. —

Rachel Howard, San Francisco Chronicle, 11 Apr. 2026 The video chip’s control registers, screen bitmaps, text-screen data, default and custom character sets, sprites, and color information all live in different locations scattered across memory, with some data actually living in separate RAM and ROM chips. —

Stephen Cass, IEEE Spectrum, 28 Sep. 2025

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In the game, players will be able to explore iconic Winx universe locations, including the courtyard of Alfea College and the mystical Enchanted Forest, and switch between all six fairies.

— Kennedy French, Variety, 6 May 2026
The original is set in an Australian rainforest populated by fairies, one of whom accidentally shrinks a logger to fairy size.

— Mike Fleming Jr, Deadline, 17 Apr. 2026