Sportive vs Hilarious - What's the difference?
sportive | hilarious | Related terms |
gay; frolicsome; merry
Playful, coltish.
Interested in sport.
Sporty, good at sport.
(cycling) cyclosportive
* 2012 , July 15. Richard Williams in Guardian Unlimited,
Sportive is a related term of hilarious.
As adjectives the difference between sportive and hilarious
is that sportive is gay; frolicsome; merry while hilarious is very funny; causing great merriment and laughter.As a noun sportive
is (cycling) cyclosportive.sportive
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- Is it I / That drive thee from the sportive court? — Shakespeare.
Noun
(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.
