Sportively

2 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]:

  sportively
       adv : in a merry sportive manner