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Definition of "peppy" [pep•py]

  • Informal Full of or characterized by energy and high spirits; lively. (adjective)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "peppy" in a sentence
  • "By about 2: 30, I was still plenty peppy from the first Rockstar, but I started to get thirsty again."
  • "What is especially depressing is that the music they grabbed, like so much of the fare over the last 30-40 years, implies a certain peppy sensibility with it that requires a hopped enthusiasm (This is new!"
  • "Then there are the staircases long and short, wide and narrow arranged in a kind of peppy Piranesian spirit."