What does playful mean?

Definitions for playful
ˈpleɪ fəlplay·ful

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. playfuladjective

    full of fun and high spirits

    "playful children just let loose from school"

Wiktionary

  1. playfuladjective

    liking play, prone to play frequently, such as a child or kitten; rather sportive.

    Actually, we are pretty playful in our romantic life.

  2. playfuladjective

    funny, humorous, jesting, frolicsome.

  3. playfuladjective

    fun, recreational, not serious.

    A brainteaser is a playful puzzle posed as a test of intelligence.

  4. playfuladjective

    experimental.

    He was a rather playful artist.

  5. Etymology: From pleiful, equivalent to.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Playfuladjective

    Sportive; full of levity.

    Etymology: play and full.

    He is scandalized at youth for being lively, and at childhood for being playful. Joseph Addison, Spectator, №. 494.

Wikipedia

  1. playful

    Play is a range of intrinsically motivated activities done for recreational pleasure and enjoyment. Play is commonly associated with children and juvenile-level activities, but may be engaged in at any life stage, and among other higher-functioning animals as well, most notably mammals and birds. Many prominent researchers in the field of psychology, including Melanie Klein, Jean Piaget, William James, Sigmund Freud, Carl Jung and Lev Vygotsky have erroneously viewed play as confined to the human species, believing play was important for human development and using different research methods to prove their theories. Play is often interpreted as frivolous; yet the player can be intently focused on their objective, particularly when play is structured and goal-oriented, as in a game. Accordingly, play can range from relaxed, free-spirited and spontaneous through frivolous to planned or even compulsive. Play is not just a pastime activity; it has the potential to serve as an important tool in numerous aspects of daily life for adolescents, adults, and cognitively advanced non-human species (such as primates). Not only does play promote and aid in physical development (such as hand-eye coordination), but it also aids in cognitive development and social skills, and can even act as a stepping stone into the world of integration, which can be a very stressful process. Play is something that most children partake in, but the way play is executed is different between cultures and the way that children engage with play varies universally.

ChatGPT

  1. playful

    Playful refers to showing a light-hearted, lively, energetic, and typically spontaneous behavior that is full of fun and amusement. This term can be used to describe not only people, especially children, but also animals who engage in activities for enjoyment or relaxation rather than a serious or practical purpose.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Playfuladjective

    sportive; gamboling; frolicsome; indulging a sportive fancy; humorous; merry; as, a playful child; a playful writer

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of playful in Chaldean Numerology is: 3

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of playful in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

Examples of playful in a Sentence

  1. Corrinne Minard:

    Cheerio and Elvis were loving and playful together, cheerio would even be quite flirtatious at times, like any cat. Cheerio has been here since she was pretty young, so shes always been used to our dogs.

  2. Morgan Wallen:

    I was around some of my friends and we just, we say dumb stuff together. In our minds it's playful. It sounds ignorant but that's really where it came from, and it's wrong, we were all clearly drunk and I was asking his girlfriend to take care of him because he was drunk and he was leaving. I didn't mean it in any derogatory manner at all.

  3. Mudrakat Alabi-Macfoy:

    Polo has shifted from just the sports to a fashion statement, for me it is something fun, something playful, something whimsical, something comfortable ... a bit of color, a bit of pop.

  4. Tom Robbins:

    Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.

  5. Mudrakat Alabi-Macfoy:

    For me it is something fun, something playful, something whimsical, something comfortable ... a bit of color, a bit of pop.

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