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SPORTFUL

Definition: SPORTFUL

SPORTFUL

Adjective

1. 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.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "SPORTFUL" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1591. (references)


Frequency of Internet Keywords: SPORTFUL

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

sportful

3
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: SPORTFUL

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

   

Portuguese

  

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)

   

Russian 

  

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)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

zabavan (amusing, comical, diverting, droll, entertaining, recreative, sportive). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

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)

   

Ukrainian

  

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)

   

Vietnamese 

  

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)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: SPORTFUL

Derivations

Words beginning with "SPORTFUL": sportfully, sportfulness, sportfulnesses. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "SPORTFUL"

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)

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Anagrams: SPORTFUL

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.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Expressions: Internet
3. Translations: Modern
4. Derivations
5. Rhymes
6. Anagrams
7. Bibliography


  

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