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Sportive vs Humorous - What's the difference?

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Sportive is a related term of humorous.


As adjectives the difference between sportive and humorous

is that sportive is gay; frolicsome; merry while humorous is full of humor or arousing laughter; funny.

As a noun sportive

is (cycling) cyclosportive.

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.

    Anagrams

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    humorous

    English

    Alternative forms

    * humourous (unusual )

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Full of humor or arousing laughter; funny.
    • The waiters were so humorous - one even did a backflip for us, when we asked him.
  • Showing humor; witty, jocular.
  • (obsolete) Damp or watery.
  • (obsolete) Dependent on or caused by one's humour or mood; capricious, whimsical.
  • *, II.8:
    • It is a melancholy humor of writing into my head.

    Synonyms

    * (arousing laughter ): amusing, funny * (witty ): amusing, jocular, witty * See also * See also

    Related terms

    * humor/humour

    Derived terms

    * humorously