sprite
Plural: sprites
Noun
- A mythical, ethereal being; an elf or fairy.
- a small being, human in form, playful and having magical powers
- Any of various supernatural beings, loosely defined:
- A spirit; a soul; a shade.
- Any of various supernatural beings, loosely defined:
- An apparition; a ghost.
- Any of various supernatural beings, loosely defined:
- An elf, fairy, or goblin; one with a small humanlike physical body.
- A two-dimensional image or animation that is integrated into a larger scene.
- A large electrical discharge that occurs high above the cumulonimbus cloud of an active thunderstorm, which appears as a luminous red or orange flash.
- The green woodpecker, or yaffle (Picus viridis).
- Any of various African damselflies of the genus Pseudagrion (of which, Australian species are named riverdamsels).
- A spayed female ferret.
- Alternative form of spright (“frame of mind, disposition”).
Verb
- To draw a (specifically) pixel art sprite.
Examples
- She often used whimsical words like SPRITE to add charm to her Scrabble board.
- sprited the new NPCs
Origin / Etymology
From Middle English sprite, spryt, spreyte, from Old French esprit (“spirit”), from Latin spīritus. Doublet of spirit, spiritus, spirytus, spright, and esprit.
(computer graphics): First used by Danny Hillis at Texas Instruments in the late 1970s.
(meteorology): An acronym for Stratospheric Perturbations Resulting from Intense Thunderstorm Electrification.
Scrabble Score: 8
sprite: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordsprite: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
sprite: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary
Words With Friends Score: 9
sprite: valid Words With Friends Word