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Impish vs Sportive - What's the difference?

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Impish is a related term of sportive.


As adjectives the difference between impish and sportive

is that impish is mischievous; of or befitting an imp while sportive is gay; frolicsome; merry.

As a noun sportive is

(cycling) cyclosportive.

impish

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • mischievous; of or befitting an imp.
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year=1897 , author=H. G. Wells , title=A Story of the Stone Age , chapter=1 citation , passage=Wild-eyed youngsters they were, with matted hair and little broad-nosed impish faces, covered (as some children are covered even nowadays) with a delicate down of hair.}}
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year=1942 , author=Virginia Woolf , title=The Death of the Moth, and other essays , chapter=20 citation , passage=But the antics of Mr. Moore, though impish and impudent, are, after all, so amusing and so graceful that the governess, it is said, sometimes hides behind a tree to watch.}}

    Synonyms

    * (naughtily or annoyingly playful): implike, mischievous, pixilated, prankish, puckish

    sportive

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • gay; frolicsome; merry
    • Is it I / That drive thee from the sportive court? — Shakespeare.
  • Playful, coltish.
  • Interested in sport.
  • Sporty, good at sport.

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • (cycling) cyclosportive
  • * 2012 , July 15. Richard Williams in Guardian Unlimited, 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.

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