different between naughty vs sportive
naughty
English
Etymology
From Middle English naughty, nau?ty, nau?ti, na?ti, equivalent to naught +? -y.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?n??ti/
- (US) IPA(key): /?n?ti/, /?n?ti/
- Homophone: knotty (in accents with the cot-caught merger)
- Rhymes: -??ti
Adjective
naughty (comparative naughtier, superlative naughtiest)
- Mischievous; tending to misbehave or act badly (especially of a child). [from 17th c.]
- Some naughty boys at school hid the teacher's lesson notes.
- Sexually provocative; now in weakened sense, risqué, cheeky. [from 19th c.]
- 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!
- (now rare, archaic) Evil, wicked, morally reprehensible. [from 15th c.]
- 1589, John Bucke, Instructions for the Use of the Beades
- my prone??e to ?inne, and naughty appetites and desires, woulde drawe me headlong to the pitte of hell
- c. 1596-97, William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, Act V scene i[1]
- […] How far that little candle throws his beams! / So shines a good deed in a naughty world.
- 1644, John Milton, Areopagitica
- 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.
- 1589, John Bucke, Instructions for the Use of the Beades
- (obsolete) Bad, worthless, substandard. [16th-19th c.]
Alternative forms
- noughty (archaic or obsolete)
Synonyms
- (immoral, sexually provocative): dirty
- (mischievous): mischievous
Antonyms
- (immoral; cheeky): nice
Derived terms
- naughtily
- naughtiness
- naughty bit
Translations
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sportive
English
Etymology
From sport +? -ive.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?sp??(?)t?v/
Adjective
sportive (comparative more sportive, superlative most sportive)
- (archaic) lively; merry; spritely
- Playful, coltish.
- Interested in sport.
- Sporty, good at sport.
Derived terms
Translations
Noun
sportive (plural sportives)
- (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.
- 2012, July 15. Richard Williams in Guardian Unlimited, Tour de France 2012: Carpet tacks cannot force Bradley Wiggins off track
Anagrams
- overtips, pivoters, repivots, sorptive, tip overs
French
Adjective
sportive
- feminine singular of sportif
Noun
sportive f (plural sportives)
- sportswoman
Further reading
- “sportive” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
German
Pronunciation
Adjective
sportive
- inflection of sportiv:
- strong/mixed nominative/accusative feminine singular
- strong nominative/accusative plural
- weak nominative all-gender singular
- weak accusative feminine/neuter singular
Italian
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -ive
Adjective
sportive f pl
- feminine plural of sportivo
Noun
sportive f
- plural of sportiva
Anagrams
- previsto, proviste
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