Usually means: Playful or lighthearted in manner.
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General (20 matching dictionaries)
  1. sportive: Merriam-Webster
  2. sportive: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. sportive: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. sportive: Collins English Dictionary
  5. sportive: Vocabulary.com
  6. Sportive, sportive: Wordnik
  7. sportive: Wiktionary
  8. sportive: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. sportive: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. sportive: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. sportive: Dictionary.com
  12. Sportive: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Sportive: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. sportive: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. sportive: Rhymezone
  16. Sportive, sportive (f): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. sportive: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  18. sportive: FreeDictionary.org
  19. sportive: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. sportive: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. sportive: Legal dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. sportive: Wordcraft Dictionary

(Note: See sportively as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (sportive)

adjective:  (archaic) lively; merry; spritely
adjective:  Playful, coltish.
adjective:  Interested in sport.
adjective:  Sporty, good at sport.
noun:  (cycling) Synonym of cyclosportive

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