Sportive
['spɔːtɪv] or ['spɔrtɪv]
Definition
(a.) Tending to, engaged in, or provocate of, sport; gay; froliscome; playful; merry.
Typist: Rex
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Jocose, jocular, waggish, frolicsome, playful, gamesome, DAFT, facetious, funny, merry, gay, debonair, vivacious, lively, sprightly, jocund, wanton, buxom, prankish, full of play, full of fun.
Typed by Claire
Examples
- And he had better play there, said my sister, shaking her head at me as an encouragement to be extremely light and sportive, or I'll work him. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- She seldom ran--it did not suit her style, she thought, for being tall, the stately and Junoesque was more appropriate than the sportive or piquante. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- Traddles would be often at the bottom of the staircase, looking on, and taking charge of sportive messages from Dora to the dearest girl in the world. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- But, when one means to be good-natured and sportive with young people, one doesn't think twice. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
Typed by Claire