sportively

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Scrabble Score

Letters

Syllables

Unique Chars

Meaning

adv

"Perhaps to treat the matter lightly and sportively would be the course most likely to encourage her to explain it."
""Then you got time, ain't you, to buy a girl a glass o'--" She stopped and winked sportively."
"At Zanies last May she sportively bickered with the vocal crowd."

From sportive + -ly.

more sportively (comparative) most sportively (superlative)

sportiveness

How to pronounce sportively

Open the pronunciation page — Open the Speakur entry for “sportively”.

Read the phonetic spelling — Read the IPA spelling () so you know which sounds to aim for.

Play the audio — Click Play to hear reference audio for “sportively”.

Repeat and practice — Say “sportively” aloud, matching stress and vowels until it feels natural.