Antonyms for sportive


Grammar : Adj
Spell : spawr-tiv, spohr-
Phonetic Transcription : ˈspɔr tɪv, ˈspoʊr-


Definition of sportive

Origin :
  • 1580s, from sport + -ive. Related: Sportively; sportiveness.
  • adj lively
Example sentences :
  • Such characters are not ruled by fate but by a sportive chance.
  • Extract from : « The American Mind » by Bliss Perry
  • He plays with two sportive spaniels, and cries "Down, Sir, down."
  • Extract from : « Ireland as It Is » by Robert John Buckley (AKA R.J.B.)
  • Fred shook it as he wished, though he was far from feeling in a sportive mood.
  • Extract from : « The Hunters of the Ozark » by Edward S. Ellis
  • During this sportive encounter, Mr. Regulus came up to greet me.
  • Extract from : « Ernest Linwood » by Caroline Lee Hentz
  • It is the only time I ever saw this hawk in a sportive or aggressive mood.
  • Extract from : « The Wit of a Duck and Other Papers » by John Burroughs
  • How shrunken with the sorrow of their wretched lives, and yet how sportive they seem!
  • Extract from : « An Outcast » by F. Colburn Adams
  • The address at the head of this paper is no sportive invention of mine.
  • Extract from : « From a Cornish Window » by Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
  • That is the point about American sport; that it is not in the least sportive.
  • Extract from : « What I Saw in America » by G. K. Chesterton
  • With some sportive malice there was evidently a spice of truth in his remarks.
  • Extract from : « The Cornwall Coast » by Arthur L. Salmon
  • I've seen her as sportive as a young fawn at the Hall of Harmony.
  • Extract from : « The Struggles of Brown, Jones, and Robinson » by Anthony Trollope

Synonyms for sportive

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