Sportive is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.
You can make 433 anagrams from letters in sportive (eioprstv).
First recorded in 1580-90; sport + -ive
During this sportive encounter, Mr. Regulus came up to greet me.
I've seen her as sportive as a young fawn at the Hall of Harmony.
He plays with two sportive spaniels, and cries "Down, Sir, down."
The address at the head of this paper is no sportive invention of mine.
It is the only time I ever saw this hawk in a sportive or aggressive mood.
With some sportive malice there was evidently a spice of truth in his remarks.
That is the point about American sport; that it is not in the least sportive.
How shrunken with the sorrow of their wretched lives, and yet how sportive they seem!
Such characters are not ruled by fate but by a sportive chance.
Fred shook it as he wished, though he was far from feeling in a sportive mood.
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