sportive as an adjective: - 1
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sportive
adjective
1 sportive
Relating to or interested in sports.
Roget 840:
amusing,
entertaining,
diverting
etc.
v.;
recreational,
recreative,
lusory†;
pleasant
etc.
(pleasing)
829;
laughable
etc.
(ludicrous)
853;
witty
etc.
842;
fun,
festive,
festal;
jovial,
jolly,
jocund,
roguish,
rompish†;
playful,
playful as a kitten;
sportive,
ludibrious†.
funny;
very funny,
hilarious,
uproarious,
side-splitting.
amused
etc.
v.;
pleased with a rattle, tickled with a pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw"
[Pope];
laughing
etc.
v.;
risible;
ready to burst,
ready to split,
ready to die with laughter;
convulsed with laughter,
rolling in the aisles.
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2 sportive
Given to merry frolicking.
synonyms: coltish, frolicky, frolicsome, rollicking.
Roget 836:
cheerful;
happy
etc.
827;
cheery,
cheerly†;
of good cheer,
smiling;
blithe;
in spirits,
in good spirits;
breezy,
bully,
chipper [U.S.];
in high spirits,
in high feather;
happy as the day is long,
happy as a king;
gay as a lark;
allegro;
debonair;
light,
lightsome,
light hearted;
buoyant,
debonnaire,
bright,
free and easy,
airy;
janty†,
jaunty,
canty†;
hedonic†;
riant†;
sprightly,
sprightful†;
spry;
spirited,
spiritful†;
lively,
animated,
vivacious;
brisk as a bee;
sparkling,
sportive;
full of play,
full of spirit;
all alive.
sunny,
palmy;
hopeful
etc.
858.
merry as a cricket,
merry as a grig†,
merry as a marriage bell;
joyful,
joyous,
jocund,
jovial;
jolly as a thrush,
jolly as a sandboy†;
blithesome;
gleeful,
gleesome†;
hilarious,
rattling.
winsome,
bonny,
hearty,
buxom.
playful,
playsome†;
folatre [Fr.],
playful as a kitten,
tricksy†,
frisky,
frolicsome;
gamesome;
jocose,
jocular,
waggish;
mirth loving,
laughter-loving;
mirthful,
rollicking.
elate,
elated;
exulting,
jubilant,
flushed;
rejoicing
etc.
838;
cock-a-hoop.
cheering,
inspiriting,
exhilarating;
cardiac,
cardiacal†;
pleasing
etc.
829;
palmy.
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Moby thesaurus: 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 ... show more.
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