单词 | sportive |
释义 | sportive (once / 5041 pages) adj Sportive is a good adjective to describe fun-loving people who are playful and lively, like your sportive friends who run straight to the water or hit the volleyball court when they get to the beach. Sportive describes people whose idea of fun is being in motion. They run around, hike, bike, play sports — anything but sit still. There is another meaning of sportive that doesn't require so much action. Those sportive types are sports fans, who may be athletes themselves, or just big fans of a team or a sport. WORD FAMILYsportive: sportiveness+/sport: sported, sporting, sportive, sports/sporting: sportingly, unsporting/unsporting: unsportingly USAGE EXAMPLESThe Snowball Sportive allows riders to tackle some of the highest roads in the country. BBC(Aug 23, 2016) As summer reaches its final months, we take a look at the work of these sportive photographers. Time(Aug 12, 2016) But at the same time, the show-within-a-show scenes were sportive, in a way “Game of Thrones,” for all its pageantry, has rarely been. New York Times(Jun 27, 2016) 1adj given to merry frolicking Syn coltish, frolicky, frolicsome, rollicking playful full of fun and high spirits 2adj relating to or interested in sports |
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