sportive
Origin of sportive
1Other words for sportive
Other words from sportive
- spor·tive·ly, adverb
- spor·tive·ness; Archaic, sport·a·bil·i·ty, noun
- un·spor·tive, adjective
- un·spor·tive·ly, adverb
- un·spor·tive·ness, noun
Words Nearby sportive
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How to use sportive in a sentence
It was plain that these feet had kicked off sportive children oftener than they had plodded with freight through miry lanes.
English: Composition and Literature | W. F. (William Franklin) WebsterCelebrate the bull among the cows, for it is the sportive host of the Maruts; he grew as he tasted the rain.
Sacred Books of the East | VariousThey the sportive, the roaring, with bright spears, the shakers of the clouds have themselves glorified their greatness.
Sacred Books of the East | VariousThe theory was charming in itself, and only a woman like Edith, whose fancy had always been sportive, would have dreamed it.
The Art of Disappearing | John Talbot SmithHe is restless as the ocean, impelled by every contrary wind, and tossed about by every sportive billow.
Female Scripture Biographies, Vol. I | Francis Augustus Cox
British Dictionary definitions for sportive
/ (ˈspɔːtɪv) /
playful or joyous
done in jest rather than seriously
of, relating to, or interested in sports
obsolete wanton or amorous: a sportive wench
Derived forms of sportive
- sportively, adverb
- sportiveness, noun
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