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View definitions for sportive

sportive

adjective as in lively

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It was plain that these feet had kicked off sportive children oftener than they had plodded with freight through miry lanes.

Celebrate the bull among the cows, for it is the sportive host of the Maruts; he grew as he tasted the rain.

They the sportive, the roaring, with bright spears, the shakers of the clouds have themselves glorified their greatness.

The theory was charming in itself, and only a woman like Edith, whose fancy had always been sportive, would have dreamed it.

He is restless as the ocean, impelled by every contrary wind, and tossed about by every sportive billow.

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On this page you'll find 52 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to sportive, such as: boon, festive, frisky, frolicsome, game, and gamesome.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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