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What is the adjective for sportsman?

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Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verbs sport, sporterize, sportify and sports which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

sportive
sporting
  1. (not comparable) Pertaining to sports
  2. (comparable) Exhibiting sportsmanship.
  3. (comparable) Having a reasonable chance of success.
  4. (comparable) Fair, generous; ‘game’.
  5. Synonyms:
  6. Examples:
    1. “Josh owns a sporting spore at the local mall.”
      “Quite sporting of you to call that foul on yourself.”
sportless
  1. Without sport.
  2. (obsolete) Without mirth; joyless.
  3. Examples:
    1. “There is, of course, something to be said for sportless exercise.”
sportful
  1. (archaic) playful, merry
  2. related to sport
  3. Synonyms:
  4. Examples:
    1. “That ludibundness of nature in her gamaieus and such like sportful and ludicrous productions.”
      “Is it like cudgel-playing or other sportful forms of bloodshed?”
sporty
  1. Favourable to sports
  2. Flashy in appearance.
  3. Synonyms:
  4. Examples:
    1. “Features such as the stopwatch, countdown timer, and thermometer make it ideal for outdoor sporty types, and it's also compact and light enough to slip into any pocket.”
      “The atmosphere was relaxed and deceptively informal, with low-key lighting and dancers wearing socklets and casually sporty costumes of muted blue.”
      “He drove a sporty car that matched his fast lifestyle.”
sportsmanly
  1. Befitting a sportsman; being or demonstrating the conduct expected of players of sport.
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “I shook her hand, everybody shakes each other's hand, but it's just a sportsmanly thing that you do.”
      “We waited for our guy while he showered unnecessarily and chowed down with the team, the sportsmanly action.”
sportsmanlike
  1. Demonstrating good sportsmanship, behaving in an honorable and appropriate manner.
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “We're all adults here and I think everyone is sportsmanlike and takes it all in stride.”
      “Afterwards, all the contenders did the sportsmanlike thing and praised each other.”
      “Lecturing on tennis at his home club, he urges his listeners to play to win, even to have a killer instinct, but always to be sportsmanlike.”
sportsome
  1. Characterised by sportiness or sportsmanship
sportlike
  1. Resembling or characteristic of sport.
sportfull
  1. Obsolete spelling of sportful
sportswomanlike
  1. (dated, used of a woman) sportsmanlike
sportal
  1. (obsolete) Of or relating to sports.
sportslike
  1. sportlike
  2. Examples:
    1. “Michael Pollan argues that sensationalized, sportslike food shows discourage spectators from actually cooking themselves, but I, a 20-year-old college student, beg to differ.”
sportier
  1. comparative form of sporty: more sporty
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “There are sleeker body frame pillars, a steeply raked windscreen and a slicker, sportier back-end with rear spoiler and clutter-free hatch door.”
      “Of the two, Vel Satis feels sharper, sportier, encouraging full use of the 3.5 litre V6 or torquey 3.0 V6 turbo diesel.”
      “Even more extraordinarily, the sportier S-types have aluminium-finished dashboards and interior highlights.”
sportiest
sported
sporterized
  1. simple past tense and past participle of sporterize
sporterizing
  1. present participle of sporterize
sportified
  1. simple past tense and past participle of sportify
sportifying
  1. present participle of sportify
sportsed
  1. simple past tense and past participle of sports
sportsing
  1. present participle of sports
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