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Definition: SPORTFUL |
SPORTFULAdjective1. Done in jest, or for mere play; sportive. 2. Full of sport; merry; frolicsome; full of jesting; indulging in mirth or play; playful; wanton; as, a sportful companion. |
Date "SPORTFUL" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1591. (references) |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
sportful | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "SPORTFUL"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | lozonjar (playful, skittish, waggish). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | шеговит (facetious, frolic, humorous, jesting, jocose, joky, macaronic, merry, pleasant, prankish, quizzical, tricksy, waggish), занимателен (amusing, entertaining, interesting, recreational, recreative), забавен (amusing, comic, comical, delayed, diverting, entertaining, funny, interesting, laughable, merry, recreational, recreative), игрив (blithe, coltish, frisky, frolic, frolicsome, gamesome, gay, jocose, kittenish, mischievous, monkeyish, pert, playful, skittish, sportive, tricksy, wanton). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | veselý (blithesome, bright, cheerful, chirpy, convivial, exhilarated, gay, gleeful, happy, high-spirited, hilarious, humorous, jaunty, jocund, jolly, jovial, joyous, light hearted, lively, merry, mirthful, pleasant, rollicking, rorty, vivacious), hravý (airy, gamesome, kittenish, playful, sportive, tricksy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | unterhaltsam (amusing, chatty, enjoyable, entertaining, funny). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | παιχνιδιάρησ (gamesome, sportive), φιλοπαίγμων (jocose, sportive). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | játékos (gambler, ludicrous, man, men, player, playful, pone, scrub, sportive, wanton). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ortfulspay galhofeiro (sportive), folgazão (canty, frolic, frolicsome, gamesome, jolly, merry, rakish, rollicking, sporting, sportive, volatile), divertido (amused, amusing, canty, diverting, droll, enjoyable, entertaining, frolicsome, funny, gamy, gay, hilarious, jolly, larksome, laughable, merry, mirthful, playful, screaming, sportive, waggish), brincalhão (frisky, frolic, gamesome, jester, jesting, jocular, joker, joky, kittenish, larky, mischievous, playful, prankish, rollicking, sporting, sportive, tricksy, waggish, wanton), alegre (alive, blithe, blithesome, bonny, boon, breezy, brisk, buoyant, buxom, canty, cheerful, cheery, chirpy, coltish, convivial, corky, diverting, entertaining, exhilarated, festal, festive, frolicsome, gamesome, gay, glad, gladsome, gleeful, happy, hilarious, holiday, jaunty, jocular, jocund, jolly, jovial, joyful, joyous, jubilant, larksome, laughing, light, light-hearted, lightsome, lively, merry, mirthful, peart, resilient, slaphappy, sportive, sprightly, tipsy, vivid, volatile, winsome). (various references) веселый (blithe, blithesome, breezy, canty, cheerful, cheery, chirpy, convivial, corky, debonair, exhilarated, exhilarating, festive, frolic, gamesome, gay, gleeful, hilarious, jocund, jolly, jovial, joyful, joyous, light hearted, lightsome, lively, merry, mirthful, perky, playful, pleasant, set up, sportive, sprightly). (various references) zabavan (amusing, comical, diverting, droll, entertaining, recreative, sportive). (various references) alegre (airy, blithe, blithesome, boon, breezy, bright, canty, cheerful, cheery, chipper, Chirk, chirpy, chuffed, contentious, convivial, debonair, felicitous, gamesome, gay, glad, happy, high-spirited, holiday, jaunty, jocose, jolly, joyful, light, light hearted, lightsome, lively, merry, mirthful, perky, pert, playful, pleased, rollicking, sporty, swinging, upbeat, zappy). (various references) розважальний (diverting, entertaining, recreative, sportive), веселий (airy, blithe, boon, breezy, bright, canty, cavalier, cheerful, cheery, chipper, chirpy, convivial, debonair, exhilarated, gay, happy go lucky, jolly, jovial, merry, mirthful, perky, pleasant, rackety, sunny), жартівливий (burlesque, gamesome, jesting, jocular, joky, playful, playsome, sportive, waggish). (various references) vui vẻ (blithe, blithesome, boon, canty, cheery, chirk, debonair, gay, genial, glad, gladsome, good-humored, good-humoured, heartily, hearty, hilarious, jocular, jocund, jolly, jovial, laughing, merrily, mirthful, pleasant), vui đùa (gamesome, joky), nô đùa. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "SPORTFUL": sportfully, sportfulness, sportfulnesses. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "SPORTFUL" (pronounced 'Sport"ful'): Abuseful, Affrightful, Aidful, Amazeful, Amendful, Annoyful, Armful, Artful, Assistful, Avengeful, Aviseful, Awful, Baleful, Baneful, Barful, Bashful, Bateful, Batful, Beamful, Behooveful, Beliefful, Blameful, Blissful, Blitheful, Blushful, Boastful, Boatful, Bodeful, Bookful, Breathful, Bretful, Brimful, Capful, Careful, Causeful, Chanceful, Changeful, Chargeful, Charmful, Cheerful, Choiceful, Complaintful, Contentful, Corruptful, Crimeful, Cropful, Cupful, Dareful, Darkful, Deathful. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "f-l-o-p-r-s-t-u" | |
-1 letter: potfuls. | |
-2 letters: flours, flouts, fluors, potful, poults, sprout, stupor, topful. | |
-3 letters: flops, flour, flout, fluor, forts, fouls, fours, frost, furls, lofts, lotus, loups, lours, louts, plots, ports, poufs, poult, pours, pouts, profs, prost, purls, rolfs, rotls, roups, roust, routs, slurp, sport, spout, spurt, stoup, stour, strop, sulfo, tofus, tolus, torus, tours, turfs, turps. | |
| Words containing the letters "f-l-o-p-r-s-t-u" | |
+2 letters: sportfully. | |
+4 letters: sportfulness. | |
+5 letters: fluoroscopist, pestiferously, preformulates. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Expressions: Internet 3. Translations: Modern 4. Derivations | 5. Rhymes 6. Anagrams 7. Bibliography |
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