playful
IPA: pɫˈeɪfʌɫ
adjective
- liking play, prone to play frequently, such as a child or kitten; rather sportive.
- funny, humorous, jesting, frolicsome.
- fun, recreational, not serious.
- experimental.
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Examples of "playful" in Sentences
- Most children are playful.
- The playful music belied the audience.
- The story is more playful than purposeful.
- The atmosphere is usually casual and playful.
- Then the series became more childlike and playful.
- The syllabus is designed to make learning fun and playful.
- The Snover was very playful and wanted to be with someone.
- The children are extremely playful but a little disobedient.
- It is a playful description of the artist's promiscuous lifestyle.
- Others however consider the name playful and harmless or fun and funky.
- Vinegar gets added to stage wine, in playful vengeance, with predictable consequences.
- And I hate that at 15 there are no more hugs and kisses freely given, unless you mask them in playful stealth.
- It was hardly a match of love, but at first there were signs of a certain playful, affectionate behaviour between them.
- SIXIXIS is a group of English designers exploring the creative possibilities of bent wood in playful products ranging from chairs to coat-hangers.
- Isuppose you can take pleasant macro shots which decontextualize commonplace objects in playful and startling ways without even leaving the house.
- … Japan is rich enough, bored enough with national ambition, strait-jacketed enough, and gloomy enough to find immense attraction in playful escapism and quirky obsession.
- When you mentioned playful rather than experimental I thought this sounds good – playful is much more optimistic, but I stopped reading not even halfway through to get to your commentary.
- We had a long conversation before we figured out he was sending more content than I was receiving - where I was responding to the (null) in playful ways, and he was getting more and more confused, but he was able to tell me "things in quotes" which felt very meta, and I felt more and more like we were part of a surrealist work.