Synonyms for Sportive:

• adj.

  •agile (adjective)
  • winged,
  • swift,
  • athletic,
  • rapid,
  • ready,
  • bustling,
  • limber,
  • sharp,
  • lithe,
  • dexterous,
  • acute,
  • stirring,
  • active,
  • energetic,
  • alert,
  • vigorous,
  • clever,
  • sportive,
  • zippy,
  • quick-witted,
  • spry,
  • supple,
  • spirited,
  • mercurial,
  • prompt,
  • quick,
  • buoyant,
  • brisk,
  • fleet.
  •beautiful (adjective)
  • bonny.
  •cheerful (adjective)
  • jocose.
  •facetious (adjective)
  • Capering,
  • witty,
  • comical,
  • playful,
  • pleasant,
  • fanciful,
  • ironic,
  • ridiculous,
  • irreverent,
  • flippant,
  • blithe,
  • smart,
  • amusing,
  • humorous,
  • comic,
  • wry,
  • farcical,
  • sarcastic,
  • joshing,
  • ludicrous,
  • satirical,
  • whimsical,
  • salty,
  • jesting,
  • joking,
  • laughable,
  • dry,
  • droll,
  • indecorous.
  •fast (adjective)
  • giddy,
  • debauched,
  • profligate,
  • incontinent,
  • self-gratifying,
  • self-indulgent,
  • extravagant,
  • flirtatious,
  • rakish,
  • lascivious,
  • indecent,
  • salacious,
  • lecherous,
  • reckless,
  • easy,
  • unchaste,
  • intemperate,
  • bawdy,
  • licentious,
  • loose,
  • lustful,
  • dissipated,
  • gadabout,
  • light,
  • libidinous,
  • sporty,
  • dissolute,
  • libertine,
  • careless,
  • depraved,
  • lewd.
  •flirtatious (adjective)
  • coquettish,
  • come-on,
  • flirty,
  • amorous,
  • enticing,
  • arch,
  • Dallying,
  • come-hither,
  • coy.
  •frisky (adjective)
  • jumpy,
  • high-spirited,
  • Romping,
  • bouncy,
  • peppy,
  • dashing,
  • wicked,
  • full of beans,
  • kittenish.
  •frivolous (adjective)
  • idle,
  • empty-headed,
  • senseless,
  • ill-considered,
  • unprofound,
  • unimportant,
  • foolish,
  • harebrained,
  • shallow,
  • light-minded,
  • impractical,
  • tongue-in-cheek,
  • minor,
  • superficial,
  • flip,
  • nonserious,
  • juvenile,
  • barmy,
  • petty,
  • puerile,
  • scatterbrained,
  • featherbrained,
  • idiotic,
  • pointless,
  • peripheral,
  • volatile,
  • flighty,
  • paltry,
  • childish,
  • facetious,
  • niggling.
  •frolicsome (adjective)
  • gleeful,
  • fun,
  • jovial.
  •funny (adjective)
  • humdinger,
  • absurd,
  • priceless,
  • risible,
  • slapstick,
  • riotous,
  • mirthful,
  • hysterical,
  • rich,
  • side-splitting,
  • hilarious,
  • silly,
  • entertaining,
  • screaming,
  • riot,
  • capricious,
  • diverting,
  • good-humored.
  •gay (adjective)
  • fun loving,
  • more fun loving,
  • self-assertive,
  • most pleasureseeking,
  • more funloving,
  • most fun loving,
  • most fun-loving,
  • self assertive,
  • funloving,
  • most funloving,
  • selfassertive,
  • pleasureseeking,
  • more pleasure seeking,
  • pleasure seeking,
  • most pleasure seeking,
  • most pleasure-seeking,
  • more pleasureseeking,
  • more pleasure-seeking,
  • more fun-loving.
  •impish (adjective)
  • elvish,
  • pixieish,
  • rascally.
  •jaunty (adjective)
  • most swaggering,
  • perky,
  • pro vocative,
  • pro-vocative,
  • selfconfident,
  • self confident,
  • more swaggering.
  •jocular (adjective)
  • more boffo,
  • most boffo.
  •jocular/jocose/jocund (adjective)
  • most jocose,
  • most jocund,
  • jokier,
  • teasing,
  • jokiest.
  •jolly (adjective)
  • lots laughs,
  • de lightful,
  • more gladsome,
  • more larking,
  • most larking,
  • most gladsome,
  • de-lightful.
  •merry (adjective)
  • booner,
  • rip roaring,
  • more rocking,
  • Rocking,
  • most riproaring,
  • more rip-roaring,
  • most saturnalian,
  • zappiest,
  • most rip roaring,
  • most grooving,
  • more grooving,
  • zingier,
  • zappier,
  • most rip-roaring,
  • rip-roaring,
  • more saturnalian,
  • most rocking,
  • more rip roaring,
  • boonest,
  • un constrained,
  • more riproaring,
  • zingiest.
  •mischievous (adjective)
  • more exasperating,
  • holy terror,
  • more ill behaved,
  • most misbehaving,
  • most dickens,
  • most ill behaved,
  • mis behaving,
  • ill behaved,
  • pre carious,
  • most exasperating,
  • more ill-behaved,
  • illbehaved,
  • more vexing,
  • most illbehaved,
  • more dickens,
  • more illbehaved,
  • more rascal,
  • most ill-behaved,
  • more misbehaving,
  • most rascal,
  • most vexing,
  • mis-behaving,
  • ex-asperating,
  • ex asperating,
  • pre-carious.
  •Other relevant words: (adjective)
  • sprightly,
  • frolicsome,
  • chirpiest,
  • campy,
  • Spright,
  • vivacious,
  • gasser,
  • jocular,
  • come hither,
  • sporting,
  • Gelastic,
  • full of pep,
  • jolly,
  • chirpy,
  • rollicking,
  • easy-moving,
  • boffo,
  • gay,
  • Spoony,
  • gladsome,
  • quick on the draw,
  • dickens,
  • campiest,
  • zappy,
  • tongue in cheek,
  • zesty,
  • prankish,
  • up-beat,
  • knee-slapper,
  • frisky,
  • Larking,
  • goodlooking,
  • coltish,
  • in high spirits,
  • Saturnalian,
  • Keen-witted,
  • for grins,
  • frivolous,
  • emptyheaded,
  • fast,
  • chirpier,
  • pleasure-seeking,
  • hyper,
  • Fairylike,
  • campier,
  • merry,
  • wisecracking,
  • funny,
  • jokey,
  • comeon,
  • ill-behaved,
  • agile,
  • gagged up,
  • punning,
  • grooving,
  • racy,
  • fun-loving,
  • feeling one's oats,
  • quick on the trigger,
  • twinkle toes,
  • zingy,
  • riproaring,
  • rioter,
  • putting one on,
  • larkish,
  • not serious,
  • flipper,
  • lots of laughs,
  • quick on trigger,
  • pulling one's leg.
  •playful (adjective)
  • good natured,
  • full pep,
  • goodnatured.
  •racy (adjective)
  • tangy,
  • gingery.
  •rollicking (adjective)
  • more cavorting,
  • most cavorting.
  •sporting (adjective)
  • square shooting,
  • square dealing,
  • straight shooting.
  •sporting/sportive (adjective)
  • generous,
  • considerate,
  • devil-may-care,
  • square,
  • sportspersonlike,
  • full of fun,
  • joyous,
  • reasonable.
  •sprightly (adjective)
  • more hyper,
  • most keen witted,
  • swinging,
  • most fairylike,
  • more keen witted,
  • more keen-witted,
  • keen witted,
  • more keenwitted,
  • keenwitted,
  • most keen-witted,
  • most keenwitted,
  • more fairylike.
  •vivacious (adjective)
  • full life,
  • full of life,
  • up beat.

• n.

  •
  • mischievous,
  • work.
  •frolicky (noun)
  • frolicky.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • happy.
  •
  • impish,
  • waggish.
  •debonair
  • jaunty.
  •joking
  • Fooling.
  •Other relevant words (noun):
  • chipper,
  • hedonic,
  • heedless,
  • wild,
  • recreation,
  • Sprightful,
  • Spiritful,
  • escapade,
  • recreational,
  • contentment,
  • nimble,
  • cheerful,
  • joy,
  • gratification,
  • antic,
  • seductive,
  • Janty,
  • debonair,
  • joyful,
  • Divertissement,
  • inane,
  • smiling,
  • action,
  • exuberant,
  • sparkling,
  • impious,
  • Ludibrious,
  • goofy,
  • Cheerly,
  • tricksy,
  • bright,
  • cheery,
  • Scampish,
  • live,
  • enjoyment,
  • amusement,
  • feast,
  • delight,
  • rest,
  • Trickish,
  • elfish,
  • madcap,
  • hearty,
  • riant,
  • practice,
  • mad,
  • lightsome,
  • zestful,
  • lively,
  • debonnaire,
  • jocund,
  • Lusory,
  • Cavorting,
  • devilish,
  • tricky,
  • puckish,
  • bully,
  • loony,
  • avocation,
  • scapegrace,
  • Frolicking,
  • vital,
  • relaxation,
  • pleasing,
  • crackpot,
  • play,
  • skittish,
  • airy,
  • entertainment,
  • roving,
  • charm,
  • festive,
  • diversion,
  • zany,
  • game,
  • nutty,
  • pleasure,
  • Sports,
  • capersome,
  • animated,
  • relief,
  • content,
  • knavish,
  • crazy,
  • activity,
  • ease,
  • naughty,
  • Rompish,
  • delectation,
  • festivity,
  • sport,
  • jubilant,
  • boon,
  • Light-hearted,
  • exercise,
  • convivial,
  • clownish,
  • Recreative,
  • canty,
  • nonsensical,
  • in spirits,
  • breezy,
  • pastime,
  • allegro,
  • luxuriant,
  • Sportful,
  • wacky,
  • distraction,
  • in good spirits,
  • Gamesome,
  • Gambolling,
  • Fay,
  • in high feather,
  • larky,
  • athletics,
  • happiness,
  • wanton,
  • dissipation,
  • merriment,
  • perverse,
  • full of spirit,
  • jollity,
  • kooky,
  • celebration,
  • festal,
  • roguish.

Paraphrases for Sportive:

• Equivalence

  • Adjective
    athletic, Sports.

• Forward Entailment

  • Noun, singular or mass
    sport.

• Independent

  • Adjective
    mathematical, sporting.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    sporting, suv, sportsman.

Antonyms for Sportive:

• adj.

  • agile
    clumsy, brittle, stiff.
  • facetious
    grave, formal, serious, unfunny.
  • fast
    moral, good, upright.
  • flirtatious
    modest, cool, shy, unprovocative.
  • frisky
    down, depressed, lifeless.
  • frivolous
    sensible, mature, thoughtful, wise.
  • funny
    tragic, unamusing, melancholy, dramatic, sad.
  • sporting/sportive
    unplayful, unfair, unsporting.
  • Other antonyms:
    grim, no-nonsense, guarded, responsible, starchy, decorous, proper, restrained, sobersided, sedate, stuffy, solemn, somber, inhibited, stolid, dutiful, stern, sober, staid, priggish, earnest.

Homophones for Sportive:

• spirit off, supportive, separate off, spirit up, separative, suppurative.