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Sporting vs Jesting - What's the difference?

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Sporting is a related term of jesting.


As verbs the difference between sporting and jesting

is that sporting is while jesting is .

As adjectives the difference between sporting and jesting

is that sporting is (not comparable) pertaining to sports while jesting is facetious.

As nouns the difference between sporting and jesting

is that sporting is the act of taking part in a sport while jesting is joking.

sporting

English

Verb

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    • Adjective

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  • (not comparable) Pertaining to sports
    • He got a job in a sporting goods store.
  • (comparable) Exhibiting sportsmanship.
    • Quite sporting of you to call that foul on yourself.
  • (comparable) Having a reasonable chance of success.
    • You think he has a sporting chance? I wouldn't call even him a long shot!
  • (comparable) Fair, generous; ‘game’.
    • It was very sporting of her to let us off like that.

    Derived terms

    * sporting goods * sporting house * sporting chance

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of taking part in a sport.
  • * (Philip Schaff)

    • jesting

    English

    Noun

  • joking
  • * Shakespeare
    • Yet in the midst of all her pure protestings, / Her faith, her oaths, her tears and all were jestings .
  • bantering; ridicule
  • mocking

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • facetious
  • humorous
  • * Macaulay
    • He will find that these are no jesting matters.
  • playful; mocking
  • jeering

    • Verb

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