Sportive

Definition: Sportive

Sportive

Adjective

1. Relating to or interested in sports.

2. Given to merry frolicking; "frolicsome students celebrated their graduation with parties and practical jokes".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "sportive" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

Synonyms: Sportive

Amusement

Adjective: amusing, entertaining, diverting; Verb: recreational, recreative, lusory; pleasant; (pleasing); laughable; (ludicrous); witty; fun, festive, festal; jovial, jolly, jocund, roguish, rompish; playful, playful as a kitten; sportive, ludibrious.

Cheerfulness

Adjective: cheerful; happy; cheery, cheerly; of good cheer, smiling; blithe; in spirits, in good spirits; breezy, bully, chipper; in high spirits, in high feather; happy as the day is long, happy as a king; gay as a lark; allegro; debonair; light, lightsome, light hearted; buoyant, debonnaire, bright, free and easy, airy; janty, jaunty, canty; hedonic; riant; sprightly, sprightful; spry; spirited, spiritful; lively, animated, vivacious; brisk as a bee; sparkling, sportive; full of play, full of spirit; all alive.

Crosswords: Sportive

French (sportswoman).

Books

• Diététique sportive : physiologie nutritionnelle et diététique des activités physiques (reference)

• L'activité sportive dans les balances de la justice (reference)

• Le Misure Di Prevenzione: Nella Legge Fondamentale E Nelle Leggi Antimafia E Nella Legge Antiviolenza, Nelle Manifestazioni Sportive (Riv E Ampliata a (reference)

• L'échec scolaire, l'exclusion et la pratique sportive (reference)

• L'éducation physique et sportive en France : essai d'anthropologie humaniste (reference)

  (more book examples)

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

Albanian

sportiv (athletic, gamesome, sport, sports, sporty), sporti, korrekt (above board, accurate, correct, correctly, sportsmanlike, sporty). (various references)

Arabic 

رياضي (sports-), ‏مسل (amusing, comforting, consolatory, entertaining, funny), ‏مرح (airiness, airy, be merry, blithe, breezy, bright, buoyancy, buoyant, cheerful, cheerfulness, cheering, chirpy, exult, facetious, festive, fresh, frisk, frisky, frolic, frolicsome, fun, gaiety, gay, glee, gleeful, have fun, hilarious, hilarity, jaunty, jocose, jocosity, jocund, jolly, jovial, joviality, joy, joyful, joyfulness, joyous, kittenish, lark, light, lightsome, lively, make merry, merriment, merry, merry making, mirth, mirthful, perkiness, perky, playful, playfulness, playing, rejoice, rollick, romp, sprightly, sunny, vivacious, vivacity, what fun, winsome), ‏لعوب (coltish, dallying, frisky, frivolous, playful, prankish, skittish, wanton), ‏رياضي (athletic, gymnast, mathematical, sporting, sporty), ‏شهواني (amorous, carnal, erotic, instinctive, lascivious, lewd, libidinous, lickerish, lush, lustful, luxurious, passionate, randy, salacious, satyr, sensual, sensualist, sultry, voluptuary, voluptuous, wanton, warm). (various references)

Bulgarian 

разпален (fanatic, fanatical, heated, radiant, vehement, warm, zealous), весел (airy, blithe, blithesome, boisterous, bright, buoyant, canty, cheery, chirp, chirpy, colorful, colourful, coltish, convivial, daft, debonair, exhilarated, festal, gamesome, gay, genial, gladsome, gleeful, gleesome, good humoured, good-humored, high, humorous, jaunty, jocular, jocund, joky, jolly, jovial, joyful, joyous, light, light hearted, lightsome, lively, mellow, merry, mirthful, peppy, perky, rackety, roistering, rollicking, rorty, rosy, saucy, slaphappy, sparkish, sporty, sprightly, swinging, upbeat, winsome), игрив (blithe, coltish, frisky, frolic, frolicsome, gamesome, gay, jocose, kittenish, mischievous, monkeyish, pert, playful, skittish, sportful, tricksy, wanton). (various references)

Chinese 

嬉戏 (Frolicked, Frolicking, Playful, romp, Romped, Romping). (various references)

Czech

hravý (airy, gamesome, kittenish, playful, sportful, tricksy). (various references)

Danish

vaeselmaki (sportive lemur weasel lemur). (various references)

Dutch

wezelmaki (sportive lemur weasel lemur). (various references)

French

sportif (sporting, sports, sportsman, sportsmanlike, sporty), folâtre (sporty), badin, amusant (spry). (various references)

German

mutwillig (airy-fairy, bratty, frolic, frolicsome, malicious, maliciously, mischievous, petulant, wanton, wantonly, willful). (various references)

Greek 

παιχνιδιάρησ (gamesome, sportful), φιλοπαίγμων (jocose, sportful). (various references)

Hebrew 

שובבי (impish, mischievous, naughty, puckish, rogue, roguish, sly, urchin, wanton). (various references)

Hungarian

tréfás (comic, comical, droll, facetious, funny, have a dig at sy, humorous, jesting, jocose, jocular, ludicrous, pleasant, rollicking, waggish), mókás (dorky, frolicsome, jocose, rollicking), játékos (gambler, ludicrous, man, men, player, playful, pone, scrub, sportful, wanton). (various references)

Italian

scherzoso (gamesome, jocular, joking, laughing, mock, playful, waggish), allegro (allegro, blithe, blithesome, breezy, bright, buoyant, cheerful, cheery, frisky, frolicsome, gay, hilarious, jocular, jolly, jovial, joyful, laughing, light hearted, lightsome, lively, merry, mirthful, perky, sprightly, sunny, wanton). (various references)

Manx

spoyrtoil (playful, sportsmanlike, sporty), reagh (amorous, blithe, frisky, frolicsome, lecherous, mirthful, playful, randy), gammanagh (bantering, frolicsome, playful, sporty). (various references)

Pig Latin

ortivespay.(various references)

Portuguese

galhofeiro (sportful), folgazão (canty, frolic, frolicsome, gamesome, jolly, merry, rakish, rollicking, sportful, sporting, volatile), divertido (amused, amusing, canty, diverting, droll, enjoyable, entertaining, frolicsome, funny, gamy, gay, hilarious, jolly, larksome, laughable, merry, mirthful, playful, screaming, sportful, waggish), brincalhão (frisky, frolic, gamesome, jester, jesting, jocular, joker, joky, kittenish, larky, mischievous, playful, prankish, rollicking, sportful, sporting, 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, sportful, sprightly, tipsy, vivid, volatile, winsome). (various references)

Romanian

sportiv (sport, sporting, sports, sportsman), zburdalnic (frisky, frolic, frolicsome, hoity toity, larky, sprightly), vioi (active, alert, animated, breezy, bright, brisk, briskly, cheery, chirpy, crisp, full of beans, gamy, hasty, hoity toity, lightsome, lithe, live, lively, living, mercurial, merry, mettlesome, nimble, nimbly, pleasant, quick-witted, racy, Randy, ready, smart, snappy, spirited, sprightly, spry, vigorous, volatile). (various references)

Russian 

игривый (coltish, frolicsome, gamesome, hoity toity, jocose, jocular, playful, skittish). (various references)

Scottish

mireagach (frisking), mear (merry, playful, wanton), beadarrach (cajoling, fond, pampered). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

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

Spanish

juguetón (frisky, frolicsome, kittenish, mischievous, playful, puckish, wanton). (various references)

Swedish

lekfull (frisky, frolic, frolicsome, gamesome, kittenish, playful, rompish, skittish). (various references)

Turkish

sportmen (sportsman), sporcu (athlete, sportsman, sportswoman), oyuncu (actor, frisky, gambler, hoaxer, performer, play actor, player, playful, prankish, thespian, trickster, tricksy, tricky), neşeli (airy, animate, animated, blithe, boon, breezy, bright, bucked, buoyant, buoyed up, cheerful, cheerfully, cheery, chirpy, cock-a-hoop, debonair, debonaire, easygoing, eupeptic, exhilarated, fit as a fiddle, full of beans, gamesome, gay, genial, gleeful, high, hilarious, jocund, jolly, jovial, joyful, joyous, lively, merry, merrymaking, mirthful, perky, rambunctious, rollicking, slaphappy, spirited, sprightly, sunny, upbeat, vivacious), şen (blithe, breezy, cheerful, cheery, convivial, eupeptic, frolicsome, gay, gleeful, jaunty, jocund, jolly, merry, merrymaking, mirthful). (various references)

Ukrainian

розважальний (diverting, entertaining, recreative, sportful), що захоплю�"ться спортом, жартівливий (burlesque, gamesome, jesting, jocular, joky, playful, playsome, sportful, waggish). (various references)

Vietnamese 

vui tính (chirpy, good-humored, good-humoured, jovial, sonsie, sonsy), hay đùa cợt để đùa, có tính chất đùa cợt. (various references)

Welsh

chwaraegar (playful). (various references)

Lepilemur. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "sportive": sportively, sportiveness, sportivenesses. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Sportive" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Kpotivi, sorptive, sortive, sportage, spurtive. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: overtips, sorptive.

-1 letter: overtip, privets, prostie, reposit, riposte, ropiest.

-2 letters: esprit, pivots, poiser, poster, potsie, presto, priest, privet, prosit, protei, proves, repots, respot, ripest, ripost, rivets, sopite, sortie, soviet, sprite, stiver, stoper, stover, stripe, strive, strove, topers, tories, triose, tripes, tripos, tropes, troves, verist, vipers, vireos, voters.

-3 letters: estop, osier, overs, overt, peris, pesto, piers, piste.

+1 letter: overslipt, positiver, poverties.

+2 letters: absorptive, adsorptive, evaporites, operatives, overprints, perovskite, protensive, protrusive, resorptive, sportively, supportive.

+3 letters: pejoratives, perovskites, personative, postdivorce, prepositive, preventions, prospective, silverpoint, sporulative, voiceprints.

+4 letters: comparatives, cooperatives, depravations, deprivations, evaporations, improvements, overexploits, overoptimism, overoptimist, overstepping, postdelivery, posteruptive, prerogatives, preservation, proclivities, proscriptive, protensively, protrusively, provocatives, seropositive, silverpoints, sportiveness, supervention, vituperators, voluptuaries.

+5 letters: flavoproteins, improvisatore, introspective, nonabsorptive, nondisruptive, operativeness, overoptimisms, overoptimists, performatives, perseveration, postoperative, prepositively, preservations, pretelevision, prevaricators, privatdocents, privatdozents, progressivist, progressivity, promotiveness, prospectively, reproductives, retrospective, superventions, supervirtuosi, supervirtuoso, velociraptors, vituperations.