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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

SPORTIVE, a.
1. Gay; merry; wanton; frolicksome.
Is it I that drive thee from the sportive court?
2. Inclined to mirth; playful; as a sportive humor.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: relating to or interested in sports
2: given to merry frolicking; "frolicsome students celebrated their graduation with parties and practical jokes" [syn: coltish, frolicsome, frolicky, rollicking, sportive]

Merriam Webster's

adjective Date: 1590 1. a. frolicsome, playful b. ardent, wanton 2. of or relating to sports and especially field sports • sportively adverb • sportiveness noun

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. playful. Derivatives: sportively adv. sportiveness n.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Sportive 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.

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

a. 1. Gay, frohcsome, playful, lively, merry, gamesome, sprightly, frisky, tricksy, rollicking, hilarious, wanton, buxom, prankish, full of play, full of fun. 2. Jocose, jocular, waggish, humorous, comic, ludicrous, frolicsome, playful, gamesome, facetious, funny, merry, vivacious, lively, sprightly, jocund, mirthful.

Moby Thesaurus

animated, antic, arch, blithe, buoyant, capering, capersome, cavorting, coltish, devilish, elfish, elvish, exuberant, foolish, frisky, frolicsome, full of beans, full of mischief, gamesome, gay, gleeful, hearty, high-spirited, impish, kittenish, knavish, larkish, light-hearted, lively, merry, mischief-loving, mischievous, playful, prankish, pranksome, pranky, puckish, roguish, rollicking, rollicksome, rompish, scampish, scapegrace, skittish, spirited, sportful, sprightly, trickish, tricksy, tricky, vital, vivacious, waggish, zestful, zippy