Pleasing vs Sportive - What's the difference?
pleasing | sportive | Related terms |
pleasure or satisfaction, as in the phrase "to my pleasing."
* (Isaac Barrow)
gay; frolicsome; merry
Playful, coltish.
Interested in sport.
Sporty, good at sport.
(cycling) cyclosportive
* 2012 , July 15. Richard Williams in Guardian Unlimited,
Pleasing is a related term of sportive.
As adjectives the difference between pleasing and sportive
is that pleasing is agreeable; giving pleasure, cheer, enjoyment or gratification while sportive is gay; frolicsome; merry.As nouns the difference between pleasing and sportive
is that pleasing is pleasure or satisfaction, as in the phrase "to my pleasing" while sportive is (cycling) cyclosportive.As a verb pleasing
is .pleasing
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*Noun
- What more palpable confutation can there be of human vanity and arrogance, of all lofty imaginations, all presumptuous confidences, all turgid humours, all fond self-pleasings and self-admirings, than is that tragical cross
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*sportive
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Adjective
(en adjective)- Is it I / That drive thee from the sportive court? — Shakespeare.
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(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.