Word Meanings - SPORTLESS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Without sport or mirth; joyless.

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• SPORTLESS
  Without sport or mirth; joyless.
• WITHOUT-DOOR
  Outdoor; exterior. "Her without-door form." Shak.
• SPORTING
  Of pertaining to, or engaging in, sport or sporrts; exhibiting the character or conduct of one who, or that which, sports. Sporting book, a book containing a record of bets, gambling operations, and the like. C. Kingsley. -- Sporting house, a house
• WITHOUTFORTH
  Without; outside' outwardly. Cf. Withinforth. Chaucer.
• SPORTIVE
  Tending to, engaged in, or provocate of, sport; gay; froliscome; playful; merry. Is it I That drive thee from the sportive court Shak. -- Sport"ive*ly, adv. -- Sport"ive*ness, n.
• SPORTAL
  Of or pertaining to sports; used in sports. "Sportal arms." Dryden.
• MIRTHFUL
  1. Full of mirth or merriment; merry; as, mirthful children. 2. Indicating or inspiring mirth; as, a mirthful face. Mirthful, comic shows. Shak. -- Mirth"ful*ly, adv. -- Mirth"ful*ness, n.
• SPORTFUL
  1. Full of sport; merry; frolicsome; full of jesting; indulging in mirth or play; playful; wanton; as, a sportful companion. Down he alights among the sportful herd. Milton. 2. Done in jest, or for mere play; sportive. They are no sportful
• SPORTER
  One who sports; a sportsman. As this gentleman and I have been old fellow sporters, I have a frienship for him. Goldsmith.
• JOYLESS
  Not having joy; not causing joy; unenjoyable. -- Joy"less*ly, adv. -- Joy"less*ness, n. With downcast eyes the joyless victor sat. Dryden. Youth and health and war are joyless to him. Addison. pining for the lass, Is joyless of the grove, and spurns
• MIRTHLESS
  Without mirth. -- Mirth"less*ness, n.
• SPORTLING
  A little person or creature engaged in sports or in play. When again the lambkins play --Pretty sportlings, full of May. Philips.
• WITHOUTEN
  Without. Chaucer.
• SPORTULA
  A gift; a present; a prize; hence, an alms; a largess. To feed luxuriously, to frequent sports and theaters, to run for the sportula. South.
• SPORTSMAN
  One who pursues the sports of the field; one who hunts, fishes, etc.
• SPORTULE
  A charitable gift or contribution; a gift; an alms; a dole; a largess; a sportula. Ayliffe.
• SPORT
  1. To divert; to amuse; to make merry; -- used with the reciprocal pronoun. Against whom do ye sport yourselves Isa. lvii. 4. 2. To represent by any knd of play. Now sporting on thy lyre the loves of youth. Dryden. 3. To exhibit, or bring out,
• SPORTABILITY
  Sportiveness.
• WITHOUT
  1. On or art the outside; not on the inside; not within; outwardly; externally. Without were fightings, within were fears. 2 Cor. vii. 5. 2. Outside of the house; out of doors. The people came unto the house without. Chaucer.
• MIRTH
  1. Merriment; gayety accompanied with laughter; jollity. Then will I cause to cease ... from the streets of Jerusalem, the voice of mirth. Jer. vii. 34. 2. That which causes merriment. Shak. Syn. -- Merriment; joyousness; gladness; fun; frolic;
• DISPORT
  Play; sport; pastime; diversion; playfulness. Milton.
• MISTRANSPORT
  To carry away or mislead wrongfully, as by passion. Bp. Hall.
• TRANSPORTING
  That transports; fig., ravishing. Your transporting chords ring out. Keble.
• TRANSPORTAL
  Transportation; the act of removing from one locality to another. "The transportal of seeds in the wool or fur of quadrupeds." Darwin.
• TRANSPORTABILITY
  The quality or state of being transportable.
• TRANSPORTED
  Conveyed from one place to another; figuratively, carried away with passion or pleasure; entranced. -- Trans*port"ed*ly, adv. -- Trans*port"ed*ness, n.
• DISPORTMENT
  Act of disporting; diversion; play. Dr. H. More.
• TRANSPORT
  1. To carry or bear from one place to another; to remove; to convey; as, to transport goods; to transport troops. Hakluyt. 2. To carry, or cause to be carried, into banishment, as a criminal; to banish. 3. To carry away with vehement emotion, as
• TRANSPORTABLE
  1. Capable of being transported. 2. Incurring, or subject to, the punishment of transportation; as, a transportable offense.
• UNDERMIRTH
  Suppressed or concealed mirth. The Coronation.
• TRANSPORTER
  One who transports.
• TRANSPORTINGLY
  So as to transport.
• OUTSPORT
  To exceed in sporting. "Not to outsport discretion." Shak.