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sportively

sportively adverb: in a sportive way.

Adverb

sportively (comparative more sportively, superlative most sportively)

  1. In a sportive way
    • Perhaps to treat the matter lightly and sportively would be the course most likely to encourage her to explain it.1880, Percy Greg, Across the Zodiac
    • "Then you got time, ain't you, to buy a girl a glass o'--" She stopped and winked sportively.1912, James Brendan Connolly, Wide Courses

sportively meaning in Tamil

sportively in Tamil

விளையாட்டாக

Forms of sportively

comparativemore sportively
superlativemost sportively

Origin of sportively

From sportive + -ly.

Questions about sportively

What does sportively mean?
Sportively means in a sportive way.
What is sportively in Tamil?
Sportively in Tamil is விளையாட்டாக. See Sportively meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is sportively?
Sportively is an adverb.

Words near sportively in the dictionary

  1. sportings
  2. sportish
  3. sportive
  4. sportive lemur
  5. sportive lemurs
  6. sportively
  7. sportiveness
  8. sportivenesses
  9. sportives
  10. sportivity
  11. sportjacket

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Adapted from Wiktionary: sportively (page history and authors); sportively (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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