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sportiveness

/spawr-tiv, spohr-/US // ˈspɔr tɪv, ˈspoʊr- //UK // (ˈspɔːtɪv) //

运动性,运动能力,运动型,运动量

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 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.

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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.