Alacrity Meaning and Usage

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Alacrity Meaning:

adjective
- Cheerful willingness; eagerness.
- Speed or quickness; celerity.

Usage:
"he accepted with alacrity"
“an alacritous response to the invitation”

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Alacrity Synonyms:

alertness, avidity, briskness, cheerfulness, eagerness, enthusiasm, gaiety, hilarity, joyousness, liveliness, promptitude, promptness, quickness, readiness, smartness, speed, spirit, sprightliness, willingness, zeal.

Alacrity Antonyms:

apathy, aversion, disinclination, dullness, indifference, reluctance, slowness, unwillingness, indolence.

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Use alacrity in a sentence:

1. When Greg’s boss invited him to lunch, he accepted with alacrity.

2. The manager was so impressed by the worker's alacrity; he suggested a promotion.

3. Immediately he had finished tea he rose with alacrity to go out.

4. After her 2 week visit, Shane carried his mother-in-law’s luggage to the taxi with alacrity.

5. On the first day of her new job, the recent college graduate was able to leave early after completing all of her tasks with alacrity.

6. Everyone joined to decorate the house for the holidays with a sparkling alacrity befitting the season.

7. My wonder cat Gizmo exhibited great alacrity when I opened a new bag of cat food.

8. ‘I’ll go and see to it at once, sir,’ he said with alacrity and with less frigidity in his manner.

9. "When tasked with testing the pastries for freshness, Tom went about his duties with alacrity."

10. He did not fail to notice the alacrity with which Fred raised his hand when a volunteer was needed.

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Know more:

"Alacrity," "celerity," "dispatch," and "expedition" all refer to quickness or speed.

“Celerity" is a rather neutral term for swiftness though the cleanness in its sound implies a smooth swiftness without miscue or stumble.

"Dispatch" (or "despatch") refers to promptness in settling some business or finishing a project (The contract was written and signed with great dispatch).

"Expedition" derives, like "expeditious," from "expedite" and hence refers to an efficient swiftness (This is a complex project which requires completion with all possible expedition)

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Some more examples:

1. Many people have admired the certainty and alacrity with which gulls pick up a fragment of biscuit from the white wake of a steamer, and the incident is characteristic. In their power of rapidly altering the focus of the eye, birds are unsurpassed.

2. Gwen ate her dinner with alacrity, eager to leave to go to the movie theater.

3. Tom wagged his tail rapidly indicating his alacrity to go for a walk when he heard Jack getting his leash.

4. And then a number of brisk young men began with remarkable alacrity to tidy up the goods that remained disturbed.

5. Mary directly drew her work table near her and reseated herself with an alacrity and cheerfulness which seemed to infer that she could taste no greater delight than in completing the task in hand.

6. She asked William if he would not come and sit at her end, and he with his unfailing politeness accepted with alacrity.

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