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Naughty vs Sportive - What's the difference?

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Naughty is a related term of sportive.


As adjectives the difference between naughty and sportive

is that naughty is while sportive is gay; frolicsome; merry.

As a noun sportive is

(cycling) cyclosportive.

naughty

English

Adjective

(er)
  • * 1623 , (William Shakespeare), First Folio, The Merchant of Venice :
    • So shines a good deed in a naughty world.
  • * 1644 , (John Milton), Aeropagitica :
    • Wholesome meats to a vitiated stomack differ little or nothing from unwholesome; and best books to a naughty mind are not unappliable to occasions of evill.
  • * (rfdate) Udall:
    • Such as be intemperant, that is, followers of their naughty appetites and lusts.
  • (obsolete) Bad, worthless, substandard.
  • * (rfdate) American King James Bible, Jeremiah 24:2:
    • One basket had very good figs, even like the figs that are first ripe: and the other basket had very naughty figs, which could not be eaten, they were so bad.
  • Mischievous; tending to misbehave or act badly (especially of a child).
    • Some naughty boys at school hid the teacher's lesson notes.
  • Immoral]], sexually provocative; now in weakened sense, [[risqué, cheeky.
    • I bought some naughty lingerie for my honeymoon.
    If I see you send another naughty email to your friends, you will be forbidden from using the computer!

    Synonyms

    * dirty * (mischievous) mischievous

    Antonyms

    * nice

    Derived terms

    * naughtily * naughtiness * naughty bit

    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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