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WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective sporty has 3 senses
- sporty(s = adj.all) clean, sporting, sportsmanlike - exhibiting or calling for sportsmanship or fair play; "a clean fight"; "a sporting solution of the disagreement"; "sportsmanlike conduct"
- sporty(s = adj.all) flashy, gaudy, jazzy, showy - (used especially of clothes) marked by conspicuous display; Array
- sporty(s = adj.all) Array - appropriate for sport or engagement in a sport; Array
OXFORD DICTIONARY
sporty, adj. (sportier, sportiest) colloq.
1 fond of sport.
2 rakish, showy.
1 fond of sport.
2 rakish, showy.
Derivative
sportily adv. sportiness n.
THESAURUS
sporty
brave, bravura, braw, casual, chic, chichi, classy, daring, dashing, devil-may-care, dressy, en deshabille, exhibitionistic, fashionable, fast, flashing, flashy, flaunting, frilly, frothy, gallant, gay, glittering, in dishabille, informal, jaunty, jazzy, loud, modish, raffish, rakehell, rakish, sharp, showy, smart, snazzy, spiffy, splashy, splurgy, stylish, swanky, swell, trendy
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