playful
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Synonyms & Antonyms for playful
Synonyms
antic, coltish, elfish, fay, frisky, frolicsome, larky, rollicking, sportful, sportive
Antonyms
earnest, serious-minded, sober, sobersided
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Elsewhere, Kelsey Lu’s eyebrows won the double-take game—seriously, everyone else can go home—with a delineated application of vivid turquoise, all the more playful when paired with crimson plaits. — Calin Van Paris, Vogue, "The Best Beauty Instagrams of the Week: Selena Gomez, Rosalía, and More," 1 Sep. 2019 The mother described how her daughter was still playful, despite her injuries, and that surgery was planned to remove shrapnel from her chest and to fix her mouth. — Los Angeles Times, "Texas mass shooting: Gunman identified; death toll rises to 8, including shooter," 1 Sep. 2019 What started out as a playful back-and-forth on social media spilled out onto the floor of the Councilwoman Rita R. Church Community Center in East Baltimore on Sunday evening, as the two sides battled for regional pride. — Phil Davis, baltimoresun.com, "Legislative layups: Baltimore dignitaries top Prince George’s, Montgomery foes in charitable basketball game," 26 Aug. 2019 The beloved Hollywood couple has a long history of trolling each other (in the most playful, loving ways, of course). — Kayleigh Roberts, Marie Claire, "Ryan Reynolds Shares a Gallery of Unflattering Pictures of Blake Lively for Her Birthday," 25 Aug. 2019 As restrained as their characters are in the film, the two actors are playful with each other and ready to laugh when the camera’s not rolling. — Time, "Behind the Scenes of The Goldfinch, a Rare and Delicate Hollywood Specimen," 22 Aug. 2019 Sabrina’s bedroom was a centerpiece of the show, a mix of the playful and the mystical: The walls were coated in periwinkle paint, while the mahogany bed featured a cascading white canopy and a golden sun in its center. — Ilana Kaplan, Curbed, "Why we’re obsessed with the TV teen bedroom," 14 Aug. 2019 The striking advances come from people on the fringes, being playful. — Daily Pilot, "Kary Mullis, a Newport resident and quirky Nobel laureate whose DNA discovery changed the science world, dies," 14 Aug. 2019 Picasso was a master of both the playful and the poetic — sometimes inscrutably so. — San Diego Union-Tribune, "Review: ‘A Weekend With Pablo Picasso’ is as playful and probing as ever in reprise of solo play at New Village Arts," 13 Aug. 2019These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'playful.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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