Sportive

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Sportive \Sport"ive\ (-[i^]v), a.
     Tending to, engaged in, or provocative of, sport; gay;
     frolicsome; playful; merry.
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           Is it I


           That drive thee from the sportive court? --Shak.
     [1913 Webster] -- {Sport"ive*ly}, adv. -- {Sport"ive*ness},
     n.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  sportive
       adj 1: relating to or interested in sports
       2: given to merry frolicking; "frolicsome students celebrated
          their graduation with parties and practical jokes" [syn: {coltish},
           {frolicsome}, {frolicky}, {rollicking}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  55 Moby Thesaurus words for "sportive":
     animated, antic, arch, blithe, buoyant, capering, capersome,
     cavorting, coltish, devilish, elfish, elvish, exuberant, foolish,
     frisky, frolicsome, full of beans, full of mischief, gamesome, gay,
     gleeful, hearty, high-spirited, impish, kittenish, knavish,
     larkish, light-hearted, lively, merry, mischief-loving,
     mischievous, playful, prankish, pranksome, pranky, puckish,
     roguish, rollicking, rollicksome, rompish, scampish, scapegrace,
     skittish, spirited, sportful, sprightly, trickish, tricksy, tricky,
     vital, vivacious, waggish, zestful, zippy