sportive
/spawr-tiv, spohr-/US // ˈspɔr tɪv, ˈspoʊr- //UK // (ˈspɔːtɪv) //
运动型,运动型的,运动性,运动性的
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Definitions
adj.形容词 adjective
- 1
- : playful or frolicsome; jesting, jocose, or merry: a sportive puppy.
- : done in sport, rather than in earnest: a sportive show of affection.
- : pertaining to or of the nature of a sport or sports.
- : Biology. mutative.
- : Archaic. ardent; wanton.
Synonyms & Antonyms
adj.lively
Synonyms
Examples
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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