Word Meanings - GAME - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Crooked; lame; as, a game leg.
Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of GAME)
- Frolic
- Play
- game
- sport
- festivity
- entertainment
- gambol
- gayety
- lark
- spree
- merrymaking
- prank
- Sport
- frolic
- wantonness
- joke
- diversion
- merriment
- gaiety
- fun
- amusement
- recreation
- pastime
Possible antonyms: (opposite words of GAME)
Related words: (words related to GAME)
- GAYETY
1. The state of being gay; merriment; mirth; acts or entertainments prompted by, or inspiring, merry delight; -- used often in the plural; as, the gayeties of the season. 2. Finery; show; as, the gayety of dress. Syn. -- Liveliness; mirth; - DROOPER
One who, or that which, droops. - FROLICKY
Frolicsome. Richardson. - PASTIME
That which amuses, and serves to make time pass agreeably; sport; amusement; diversion. - DROOPINGLY
In a drooping manner. - WANTONNESS
The quality or state of being wanton; negligence of restraint; sportiveness; recklessness; lasciviousness. Gower. The tumults threatened to abuse all acts of grace, and turn them into wantonness. Eikon Basilike. Young gentlemen would be as sad as - SPORTLESS
Without sport or mirth; joyless. - 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 - MERRYMAKING
Making or producing mirth; convivial; jolly. - 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. - RECREATION
The act of recreating, or the state of being recreated; refreshment of the strength and spirits after toil; amusement; diversion; sport; pastime. - SPORTAL
Of or pertaining to sports; used in sports. "Sportal arms." Dryden. - 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 - SPREE
A merry frolic; especially, a drinking frolic; a carousal. - SPORTER
One who sports; a sportsman. As this gentleman and I have been old fellow sporters, I have a frienship for him. Goldsmith. - SPORTLING
A little person or creature engaged in sports or in play. When again the lambkins play --Pretty sportlings, full of May. Philips. - GAMBOL
A skipping or leaping about in frolic; a hop; a sportive prank. Dryden. (more info) It. gambata kick, fr. L. gamba leg, akin to F. jambe, OF. also, gambe, fr. L. gamba, hoof or perh. joint: cf. Gr. cam crooked; perh. akin to E. chamber: - FROLICFUL
Frolicsome. - AMUSEMENT
1. Deep thought; muse. Here I . . . fell into a strong and deep amusement, revolving in my mind, with great perplexity, the amazing change of our affairs. Fleetwood. 2. The state of being amused; pleasurable excitement; that which amuses; - MERRYMAKER
One who makes merriment or indulges in conviviality; a jovial comrade. - 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. - UNWEARY
To cause to cease being weary; to refresh. Dryden. - 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 - LIFE-WEARY
Weary of living. Shak.