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
- 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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