SPORTY

sporty

(adjective) appropriate for sport or engagement in a sport

flashy, gaudy, jazzy, showy, sporty

(adjective) (used especially of clothes) marked by conspicuous display

clean, sporting, sporty, sportsmanlike

(adjective) exhibiting or calling for sportsmanship or fair play; “a clean fight”; “a sporting solution of the disagreement”; “sportsmanlike conduct”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Adjective

sporty (comparative sportier, superlative sportiest)

Favourable to sports

Flashy in appearance.

Anagrams

• prosty

Source: Wiktionary



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Word of the Day

25 February 2025

ENDLESSLY

(adverb) (spatial sense) seeming to have no bounds; “the Nubian desert stretched out before them endlessly”


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