Definition of sportive
1a : frolicsome, playfulb : ardent, wanton
2 : of or relating to sports and especially field sports
sportively
adverbsportiveness
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Examples of sportive in a Sentence
a sportive pastor who began every sermon with a joke
First Known Use of sportive
1593
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