Sportive
Part of speech: adjective
Definition: playful, coltish. interested in sport. apt in sport.
Playful
Part of speech: adjective
Definition: liking play, prone to play frequently, such as a child or kitten; rather sportive.funny, humorous, jesting, frolicsome.fun, recreational, not serious.experimental.
Example sentence: Of Montreal's early releases were loaded with playful but confessional acoustic tunes, but the band soon embraced glam-rock's freakier side on albums like 'Hissing Fauna Are You the Destroyer?' and 'Skeletal Lamping.' It was a shift fans might not have tolerated if it weren't for frontman Kevin Barnes' catchy, personality-driven songs.