• IPA: /ˈspɹɪŋi/

springy (comparative springier, superlative springiest)

1. That returns rapidly to its original form (as a spring does) after being bent, compressed, stretched, etc.

   The soft peat was springy under her feet.

   • 1749, [John Cleland], “(Please specify the letter or volume)”, in Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure [Fanny Hill], London: Printed [by Thomas Parker] for G. Fenton [i.e., Fenton and Ralph Griffiths] […], OCLC 731622352 ↗:

     We had now reach'd the closest point of union; but when he backened to come on the fiercer, as if I had been actuated by a fear of losing him, in the height of my fury I twisted my legs round his naked loins, the flesh of which, so firm, so springy to the touch, quiver'd again under the pressure

2. Lively; bouncy.
3. Characteristic of the spring season.

• (that returns to its original form) bouncy, elastic, resilient
• (lively) bouncy, jaunty, energetic, vigorous
• (characteristic of spring) springlike, mild

• unspringy

• French: élastique
• German: elastisch
• Italian: elastico
• Portuguese: elástico
• Russian: упру́гий
• Spanish: elástico