sportive
21sportive — adjective a) playful, coltish. b) interested in sport …
22sportive — Synonyms and related words: 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… …
23sportive — I (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. gay, playful, sprightly; see active 2 , jaunty . II (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) a. playful, fun, romping, merry, joking, frisky, roguish, frolicsome, gamesome, jaunty. ANT.: serious, grave, earnest III (Roget s Thesaurus …
24sportive — spor·tive || spÉ”rtɪv / spɔɪ adj. playful, frolicsome, lively; of or pertaining to sports; interested or involved in sports …
25sportive — adjective playful; light hearted. Derivatives sportively adverb sportiveness noun …
26sportive — a. 1. Gay, frohcsome, playful, lively, merry, gamesome, sprightly, frisky, tricksy, rollicking, hilarious, wanton, buxom, prankish, full of play, full of fun. 2. Jocose, jocular, waggish, humorous, comic, ludicrous, frolicsome, playful, gamesome …
27sportive — adjective literary enjoying fun and making jokes in a friendly way; playful sportively adverb sportiveness noun (U) …
28sportive — adj 1. playful, gamesome, (in musical directions) scherzando; frolicsome, full of fun, fun loving; spirited, high spirited, frisky, coltish, skittish, Inf. full of beans, Inf. feeling one s oats; kittenish, romping; sprightly, lively, jaunty,… …
29sportive — spor·tive …
30sportive — spor•tive [[t]ˈspɔr tɪv, ˈspoʊr [/t]] adj. 1) playful; frolicsome 2) spo pertaining to or of the nature of a sport or sports 3) ardent; wanton • Etymology: 1580–90 spor′tive•ly, adv. spor′tive•ness, n …
