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View synonyms for sportive
sportive
[ spawr-tiv, spohr- ]
sportive
/ ˈspɔːtɪv /
adjective
- playful or joyous
- done in jest rather than seriously
- of, relating to, or interested in sports
- obsolete.wanton or amorous
a sportive wench
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Derived Forms
- ˈsportiveness, noun
- ˈsportively, adverb
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Other Words From
- sportive·ly adverb
- sportive·ness Archaic, sporta·bili·ty noun
- un·sportive adjective
- un·sportive·ly adverb
- un·sportive·ness noun
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Example Sentences
It was plain that these feet had kicked off sportive children oftener than they had plodded with freight through miry lanes.
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Celebrate the bull among the cows, for it is the sportive host of the Maruts; he grew as he tasted the rain.
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They the sportive, the roaring, with bright spears, the shakers of the clouds have themselves glorified their greatness.
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The theory was charming in itself, and only a woman like Edith, whose fancy had always been sportive, would have dreamed it.
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He is restless as the ocean, impelled by every contrary wind, and tossed about by every sportive billow.
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