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sportive

[ spawr-tiv, spohr- ]

adjective

  1. playful or frolicsome; jesting, jocose, or merry:

    a sportive puppy.

    Synonyms: , , ,

  2. done in sport, rather than in earnest:

    a sportive show of affection.

  3. pertaining to or of the nature of a sport or sports. sports.
  4. Biology. mutative.
  5. Archaic. ardent; wanton.


sportive

/ ˈɔːɪ /

adjective

  1. playful or joyous
  2. done in jest rather than seriously
  3. of, relating to, or interested in sports
  4. obsolete.
    wanton or amorous

    a sportive wench

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Derived Forms

  • ˈǰپԱ, noun
  • ˈǰپ, adverb
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Other yvlog Forms

  • ǰt· adverb
  • ǰt·Ա Archaic, ǰa·i·ٲ noun
  • ܲ·ǰt adjective
  • un·ǰt· adverb
  • un·ǰt·Ա noun
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yvlog History and Origins

Origin of sportive1

First recorded in 1580–90; sport + -ive
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With trees swaying in the gentle breeze and birds and butterflies gamboling in the setting sun, it would be foolish not to fall into sportive line.

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She was strumming her guitar and in the middle of a sportive preamble to the first surprise song of the show.

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“With no thought of buying, the eye is sportive and generous; it creates; it adorns; it enhances,” Woolf writes.

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Etape Loch Ness is Scotland's largest closed road cycle sportive, taking cyclists on a route around the Loch, finishing in Inverness.

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The sportive rhythm of the show doesn’t preclude tragedy.

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