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Definition of Sportful
1. a. Full of sport; merry; frolicsome; full of jesting; indulging in mirth or play; playful; wanton; as, a sportful companion.
Definition of Sportful
1. Adjective. (archaic) playful, related to sport ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Sportful
1. sportive [adj] - See also: sportive
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sportful
Literary usage of Sportful
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The True Intellectual System of the Universe: Wherein All the Reason and by Ralph Cudworth, Johann Lorenz Mosheim (1845)
"... be thought so very great to a multitude of co-ordinate Deities, when parcelled
out among them, but would rather seem to be but a sportful and delightful ..."
2. A Dictionary of the English Language: In which the Words are Deduced from ...by Samuel Johnson by Samuel Johnson (1805)
"Down he alights among the sportful herd Of those four-footed kinds. Milton^.
To make sport with his word, and to endeavour to render i: ridiculous, ..."
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