Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Full of fun and high spirits; frolicsome or sportive.
- adjective Humorous; jesting.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Full of play; sportive; frolicsome: frisky: as, a playful child.
- Showing a sportive fancy or sprightly humor; pleasantly jocular: as, a playful remark; a playful style; playful attentions.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Sportive; gamboling; frolicsome; indulging a sportive fancy; humorous; merry
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective liking
play , prone to play frequently, such as a child or kitten; rathersportive . - adjective
funny ,humorous ,jesting ,frolicsome . - adjective
fun ,recreational , not serious. - adjective
experimental .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective full of fun and high spirits
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Examples
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SIXIXIS is a group of English designers exploring the creative possibilities of bent wood in playful products ranging from chairs to coat-hangers.
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And I hate that at 15 there are no more hugs and kisses freely given, unless you mask them in playful stealth.
10 Things I Hate About Motherhood (And One That I Love) - Her Bad Mother 2010
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It was hardly a match of love, but at first there were signs of a certain playful, affectionate behaviour between them.
March « 2009 « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground 2009
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When you mentioned playful rather than experimental I thought this sounds good – playful is much more optimistic, but I stopped reading not even halfway through to get to your commentary.
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Vinegar gets added to stage wine, in playful vengeance, with predictable consequences.
And Furthermore by Judi Dench – review Kate Kellaway 2010
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It was hardly a match of love, but at first there were signs of a certain playful, affectionate behaviour between them.
william hazlitt | the man of letters « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground 2009
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Isuppose you can take pleasant macro shots which decontextualize commonplace objects in playful and startling ways without even leaving the house.
hughstimson.org » Blog Archive » 3 Rules for Photography 2010
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… Japan is rich enough, bored enough with national ambition, strait-jacketed enough, and gloomy enough to find immense attraction in playful escapism and quirky obsession.
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We had a long conversation before we figured out he was sending more content than I was receiving - where I was responding to the (null) in playful ways, and he was getting more and more confused, but he was able to tell me "things in quotes" which felt very meta, and I felt more and more like we were part of a surrealist work.
Sometimes it works chezmax 2007
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Others however consider the name playful and harmless or fun and funky.
Cocky Chavez Launches Low Cost Phone Derived From Penis | Impact Lab 2009
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