All sportive synonyms
spor·tive
S s adv sportive
- gleefully — full of exultant joy; merry; delighted.
- contentedly — satisfied; content.
- blithely — joyous, merry, or happy in disposition; glad; cheerful: Everyone loved her for her blithe spirit.
- graciously — pleasantly kind, benevolent, and courteous.
adj sportive
- frolicsome — merrily playful; full of fun.
- hyper — overexcited; overstimulated; keyed up.
- chirpy — If you describe a person or their behaviour as chirpy, you mean they are very cheerful and lively.
- coltish — A young person or animal that is coltish is full of energy but clumsy or awkward, because they lack physical skill or control.
- grooving — a long, narrow cut or indentation in a surface, as the cut in a board to receive the tongue of another board (tongue-and-groove joint) a furrow, or a natural indentation on an organism.
- gasser — Herbert Spencer, 1888–1963, U.S. physiologist: Nobel Prize in Medicine 1944.
- frisky — lively; frolicsome; playful.
- campiest — of, relating to, or characterized by camp: a campy send-up of romantic operetta.
- boffo — very good; highly successful
- impish — mischievous.
- ill-behaved — 1. [numerical analysis] Said of an algorithm or computational method that tends to blow up because of accumulated roundoff error or poor convergence properties. 2. Software that bypasses the defined operating system interfaces to do things (like screen, keyboard, and disk I/O) itself, often in a way that depends on the hardware of the machine it is running on or which is nonportable or incompatible with other pieces of software. In the IBM PC/mess-dos world, there is a folk theorem (nearly true) to the effect that (owing to gross inadequacies and performance penalties in the OS interface) all interesting applications are ill-behaved. See also bare metal. Opposite: well-behaved, compare PC-ism.
- facetious — not meant to be taken seriously or literally: a facetious remark.
- booner — a young working-class person from Canberra
adverb sportive
- zestfully — With zest or enthusiasm.
- jocularly — given to, characterized by, intended for, or suited to joking or jesting; waggish; facetious: jocular remarks about opera stars.
- enthusiastically — In an enthusiastic manner.