sportive

sportive is a 8-letter English word with 3 senses as adjective in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Tending to, engaged in, or provocate of, sport; gay; froliscome; playful; merry. Face value is 13 in Scrabble and 15 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

8 letters · Scrabble 13 · Words With Friends 15 · 3 senses

Definitions

1. adjective. Tending to, engaged in, or provocate of, sport; gay; froliscome; playful; merry.
2. adjective. given to merry frolicking

   "frolicsome students celebrated their graduation with parties and practical jokes"

   Synonyms: coltish, frolicky, frolicsome, rollicking

3. adjective. relating to or interested in sports

Synonyms

coltish, frolicky, frolicsome, rollicking

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in sportive:

overtips, sorptive

Common word forms

sportively, sportiveness

Words from these letters

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