Sporting vs Merry - What's the difference?
sporting | merry | Related terms |
(not comparable) Pertaining to sports
(comparable) Exhibiting sportsmanship.
(comparable) Having a reasonable chance of success.
(comparable) Fair, generous; ‘game’.
Jolly and full of high spirits
* Shakespeare
Festive and full of fun and laughter
* 1883 , (Howard Pyle), (The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood)
Brisk
Causing laughter, mirth, gladness, or delight.
* Spenser
(euphemistic) drunk; tipsy
Sporting is a related term of merry.
As a verb sporting
is .As an adjective sporting
is (not comparable) pertaining to sports.As a noun sporting
is the act of taking part in a sport.As a proper noun merry is
originally a nickname for a merry person.sporting
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Verb
(head)Adjective
(more)- He got a job in a sporting goods store.
- Quite sporting of you to call that foul on yourself.
- You think he has a sporting chance? I wouldn't call even him a long shot!
- It was very sporting of her to let us off like that.
Derived terms
* sporting goods * sporting house * sporting chancemerry
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Alternative forms
* (l) (obsolete)Adjective
(er)- We had a very merry Christmas.
- I am never merry when I hear sweet music.
- f I have the chance, I will make our worshipful Sheriff pay right well for that which he hath done to me. Maybe I may bring him some time into Sherwood Forest and have him to a right merry feast with us.
- Everyone was merry at the party.
- The play moved along at a merry pace.
- a merry jest
- merry wind and weather
- Some of us got a little merry at the office Christmas party.
