Word Meanings - SPORTFUL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Full of sport; merry; frolicsome; full of jesting; indulging in mirth or play; playful; wanton; as, a sportful companion. Down he alights among the sportful herd. Milton. 2. Done in jest, or for mere play; sportive. They are no sportful

Additional info about word: SPORTFUL

1. Full of sport; merry; frolicsome; full of jesting; indulging in mirth or play; playful; wanton; as, a sportful companion. Down he alights among the sportful herd. Milton. 2. Done in jest, or for mere play; sportive. They are no sportful productions of the soil. Bentley. -- Sport"ful*ly, adv. -- Sport"ful*ness, n.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of SPORTFUL)

• Freakish
• Sportful
• frisky
• whimsical
• fanciful
• capricious
• erratic

Related words: (words related to SPORTFUL)

• CAPRICIOUS
  Governed or characterized by caprice; apt to change suddenly; freakish; whimsical; changeable. "Capricious poet." Shak. "Capricious humor." Hugh Miller. A capricious partiality to the Romish practices. Hallam. Syn. -- Freakish; whimsical; fanciful;
• ERRATIC
  1. Having no certain course; roving about without a fixed destination; wandering; moving; -- hence, applied to the planets as distinguished from the fixed stars. The earth and each erratic world. Blackmore. 2. Deviating from a wise of the common
• SPORTFUL
  1. Full of sport; merry; frolicsome; full of jesting; indulging in mirth or play; playful; wanton; as, a sportful companion. Down he alights among the sportful herd. Milton. 2. Done in jest, or for mere play; sportive. They are no sportful
• FANCIFUL
  1. Full of fancy; guided by fancy, rather than by reason and experience; whimsical; as, a fanciful man forms visionary projects. 2. Conceived in the fancy; not consistent with facts or reason; abounding in ideal qualities or figures; as, a fanciful
• WHIMSICALITY
  The quality or state of being whimsical; whimsicalness.
• FRISKY
  Inclined to frisk; frolicsome; gay. He is too frisky for an old man. Jeffrey.
• FREAKISH
  Apt to change the mind suddenly; whimsical; capricious. It may be a question whether the wife or the woman was the more freakish of the two. L'Estrange. Freakish when well, and fretful when she's sick. Pope. -- Freak"ish*ly, adv. -- Freak"ish*ness,
• WHIMSICALNESS
  The quality or state of being whimsical; freakishness; whimsical disposition.
• WHIMSICALLY
  In a whimsical manner; freakishly.
• WHIMSICAL
  1. Full of, or characterized by, whims; actuated by a whim; having peculiar notions; queer; strange; freakish. "A whimsical insult." Macaulay. My neighbors call me whimsical. Addison. 2. Odd or fantastic in appearance; quaintly devised; fantastic.
• ERRATICAL
  Erratic. -- Er*rat"ic*al*ly, adv. -- Er*rat"ic*al*ness, n.
• INERRATIC
  Not erratic or wandering; fixed; settled; established.