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Definition of Sportive

1. Adjective. Relating to or interested in sports.

2. Adjective. Given to merry frolicking. "Frolicsome students celebrated their graduation with parties and practical jokes"

Definition of Sportive

1. a. Tending to, engaged in, or provocate of, sport; gay; froliscome; playful; merry.

Definition of Sportive

1. Adjective. gay; frolicsome; merry ¹

2. Adjective. Playful, coltish. ¹

3. Adjective. Interested in sport. ¹

4. Adjective. Sporty, good at sport. ¹

5. Noun. (cycling) cyclosportive ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Sportive

1. playful [adj] - See also: playful

Lexicographical Neighbors of Sportive

sportiest sportif sportily sportiness sportinesses sporting sporting chance sporting dog sporting goods sporting house

sporting houses sporting lady sporting life sporting man sportingly sportive (current term) sportively sportiveness sportivenesses sportless

sportlike sportling sportlings sportponies sportpony sports sports announcer sports arena sports bra sports bras

Literary usage of Sportive

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Bookman (1903)
"current of sportive humour and demonstrating his superlative talents as a comic musician. Outside of his especial field, Offenbach cut a small figure. ..."

2. The Monthly Review by Ralph Griffiths (1801)
"... Contention, urg'cl in sportive mood ; And flattery, that blinds the sense : A thousand toys, by lovers serious deem'd, ..."

3. Our Wild Indians: Thirty-three Years Personal Experience Among the Red Men by Richard Irving Dodge (1884)
"... Behind the Plough — The Indian Maiden of Fiction — Wrestling with the sportive Hoe — A Square Day's Work — The Chopping Match — Startling Facts. ..."

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