SPUNKINESS Synonyms: 99 Similar and Opposite Words

spunkiness

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Noun

But Alcock is no John Wayne or Jeff Bridges, and Ridley lacks the spunk of Kim Darby and Hailee Steinfeld.

— Pete Hammond, Deadline, 24 June 2026
These small, high-energy pups have plenty of spunk and a big heart.

— Pat Mueller, USA Today, 11 June 2026

Definition of spunk

Noun

What drew me here is the uniqueness and the spiritedness of this garden, and there’s a wonderful team assembled, thanks to Ari.

— Lonnie Burstein Hewitt, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 July 2026
As this sequence plays out, the social fabric further shreds and unravels; trust circles shrink and become ever more homogeneous; and hostility, mean spiritedness, and a general hardening take hold in society.

— Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 3 May 2026

Definition of spiritedness

Noun

Over the summer, Lawrence, like other college cities, switches from the liveliness of young students to the day-to-day of residents who have made a life there.

— PJ Green June 13, Kansas City Star, 13 June 2026
Many of the streets seem narrower than those in Forza Horizon 6‘s Tokyo, and have some more traffic, too, which helps contribute a sense of scale and liveliness to the world.

— Adam Ismail, The Drive, 11 June 2026

Definition of liveliness

Noun

Sébastien Vaniček, a French filmmaker of vigor if not vibrancy, is the fourth director to pick up the series, now on its sixth installment.

— Joshua Rothkopf, Los Angeles Times, 10 July 2026
Legal issues delayed any immediate development plans, leaving the vacant Sears building as a shell of its former self among the vibrancy of Town Center mall.

— Abigail Hasebroock, Sun Sentinel, 9 July 2026

Definition of vibrancy

Noun

His ideas were too radical even for many of our Founding Fathers, but the vigor of his writing and the clarity of his thinking were as a spark to gunpowder, and that was coming, too.

— Steven Johnson, Washington Post, 14 July 2026
Dividing clumps every few years in early spring also maintains their vigor.

— SJ McShane, Martha Stewart, 11 July 2026

Definition of vigor

Noun

Timothée Chalamet, who has established a penchant for outré themed courtside outfits to cheer on his beloved New York Knicks, transferred his spirit to root for his other team France.

— Anna Cafolla, Vogue, 15 July 2026
Lestat has hired the witch Merrick Mayfair (Sarah Afful) to commune with Claudia’s spirit so that Louis can properly say good-bye to their dead sister-daughter.

— Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 15 July 2026

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