1. definition: promptness or willingness promptness or willingness cheerful readiness cheerful readiness liveliness; briskness liveliness; briskness

2. pronunciation: uh - lak - ri-tee uh - lak - ri-tee

3. related form: adjective adjectivealacritous

4. synonyms: eagerness eagerness keenness keenness fervor fervor zeal zeal sprightliness sprightliness agility agility

5. Alacrity energized the family, causing them to jump for joy.

6. The children responded to the teacher’s question with alacrity.

7. The men sealed their agreement by shaking hands with alacrity.

8. The dog greeted its owner with alacrity.

9. He accepted the invitation with alacrity.

10. The businessman took his company’s alacritous attitude to new levels when he literally beat his competition in the race to new accounts.

11. An alacritous smile washed over the child’s face as he anticipated eating the orange.