Meaning of SPORTIVE
| Pronunciation: | | 'spowrtiv
|
 WordNet Dictionary |
| |
| | Definition: | |
- [adj] given to merry frolicking; "frolicsome students celebrated their graduation with parties and practical jokes"
- [adj] relating to or interested in sports
|
| |
| | Websites: | | |
| |
| | Synonyms: | | coltish, frolicky, frolicsome, playful, rollicking |
| |
|
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
| |
| | Definition: | | \Sport"ive\, a.
Tending to, engaged in, or provocate of, sport; gay;
froliscome; playful; merry.
Is it I That drive thee from the sportive court?
--Shak.
-- {Sport"ive*ly}, adv. -- {Sport"ive*ness}, n.
|
| |
|
|