Brisk vs Sportive - What's the difference?
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Full of liveliness and activity; characterized by quickness of motion or action; lively; spirited; quick.
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Full of spirit of life; effervescing, as liquors; sparkling; as, brisk cider.
Stimulating or invigorating.
Abrupt, curt in one's manner or in relation to others.
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gay; frolicsome; merry
Playful, coltish.
Interested in sport.
Sporty, good at sport.
(cycling) cyclosportive
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Brisk is a related term of sportive.
As adjectives the difference between brisk and sportive
is that brisk is full of liveliness and activity; characterized by quickness of motion or action; lively; spirited; quick while sportive is gay; frolicsome; merry.As a verb brisk
is to make or become lively; to enliven; to animate.As a noun sportive is
(cycling) cyclosportive.brisk
English
Adjective
(en-adj)- We took a brisk walk yesterday.
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- This morning was a brisk fall day. It wasn't cold enough for frost, but you wanted to keep moving.
- Her manner was brisk, and her good-breeding scarcely concealed her conviction that if you were not a soldier you might as well be a counter-jumper.
See also
* brusqueExternal links
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English
Adjective
(en adjective)- Is it I / That drive thee from the sportive court? — Shakespeare.
Noun
(en noun)Tour de France 2012: Carpet tacks cannot force Bradley Wiggins off track
- Such incidents, part of the cherished mythology of the Tour's early years, are rare in modern cycling, although a 62-year-old local councillor was arrested and subsequently released after tacks had been scattered during the 2009 Etape Caledonia, a sportive held on closed roads in Scotland, causing countless punctures among the 3,500 riders.