Sportive is valid Scrabble Word

Is sportive a scrabble word?
Official Scrabble Players Dictionary YES
Official Tournament and Club Word List YES
Collins Scrabble Words YES
Is sportive valid Words with Friends?
Words with Friends YES

8 letters word
13 points in Scrabble
15 points in WWF

Definitions for SPORTIVE in dictionary:

NOUN:

a long-distance road cycling event in which a large number of cyclists ride a marked route

ADJECTIVE:

playful
playful; light-hearted
amorous; lustful
relating to, interested in, or good at sport
Tending to, engaged in, or provocate of, sport; gay; froliscome; playful; merry.
relating to or interested in sports
given to merry frolicking

Words related to SPORTIVE

playful15 sportively18 sportiveness17

Words that contain SPORTIVE

sportively18 sportiveness17 transportive17 sportivenesses19

How to use SPORTIVE in a sentence

And here we find that the fancy is not more sportive in dreams, than are the poets in their descriptions of her nocturnal vagaries.
With these were preserved some letters of his own, written to her about the same time, and of a sportive character.
These were sometimes enlivened with a sportive humor that gave a charm to the social hour, and contributed to the amusement of his guests and friends.
And this life leads them to a sportive form of criminality.
A light, familiar grace, and mild unpretending pathos are the characteristics of his more sportive or serious writings, whether in poetry or prose.
Perhaps the sportive were most often in her company, and it was against these that Mrs.
Olga Tcherny had hunted in all the covers of sportive Europe with an appetite which always ended with the chase.
The child-nature in her is so sunny, sportive, so bent on harmless mischief.
It was like one of those games of hide-and-seek which the court used to play, when Louis was in a sportive mood, among the oaks and yew hedges of Versailles.
At this gloomy feast, there was no question of the gay and sportive train of bridesmaids and young men, who usually attend the wedded pair.

For girls, as well as boys, the sportive activities to which the instincts impel, are essential to bodily welfare.
On the 14th of February in the same year, my daughter, in a sportive mood, sent it as a Valentine under a fictitious name to her cousin C.
They are sportive as gods broken loose from Olympus, and yet very em- -inent men.
But this only added to the fun of the thing, for Tommy when in sportive mood takes hard knocks with infinite good-humour.
But I was a good deal annoyed by the attack, and thought I would make a good-natured and sportive reply to it, instead of taking it seriously.
A master of the pathetic, his muse sometimes assumed a sportive gaiety, when the laugh is irresistible.
Not less tender and fond than before, his sportive fancy indulged in infinite expressions of playful humour and delicate pranks of love.
Others, by a sportive scuffle on the drawbridge, prevented its being raised, and occupied the attention of the garrison.
I have already stated the point of view in which we ought to consider this sportive play upon words.
The son is clearly the hero, mainly in sportive humor, although he is not free from parental interference.
The lyrics which we have treated are in the majority of cases of a sportive character, those appealing most directly to us and, we think, to the hearts of people of these times.
Always remember that you are a sporting reporter, and be as sportive as you can.
Wild, sportive, and innocent as Emmeline was, she yet possessed a depth of reflection and clearness of perception, which those who only knew her casually might not have expected.
Originally, the word implied a playful, or sportive, reference.
In America and England music is still mainly a sportive habit.
Derrick, who was my first tutor in the ways of London, and shewed me the town in all its variety of departments, both literary and sportive, the particulars of which Dr.
One might imagine it animated by those sportive and capricious nature-spirits an old Father of the church used to call the monkeys of God.

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