sportive

Questions about sportive

What does sportive mean?

sportive means "relating to or interested in sports". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in sportive?

sportive has 2 syllables and divides as spor-tive under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for sportive?

Close synonyms include coltish, frolicsome, frolicky, rollicking. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is sportive a common word?

sportive is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.