Adjective: playful
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
| Comparative | playfuller |
| Superlative | playfullest |
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more playful |
| Superlative | most playful |
Sample Sentences
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Actually, we are pretty playful in our romantic life.
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John is a playful fellow.
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A party hat is a playful conical hat people wear at parties.
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Why this already very fast train should be speeded up still further, when none of the other more easily timed S.R. West of England trains has a single minute pared from its schedule, is unexplained - unless this is a playful dig at the Western Region, most of whose expresses, by reason of additional stops, will be decelerated from the same date. [1961 October, “The winter timetables of British Railways: Southern Region”, in Trains Illustrated, page 593:]
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A brainteaser is a playful puzzle posed as a test of intelligence.
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He was a rather playful artist.
Adjectives inflected like playful
sinful,
painful,
playful,
mournful,
mirthful,
healthful,
awful,
yuriful,
hateful,
harmful,
useful,
joyful,
grateful,
Etymology
From Middle English pleiful, equivalent to play + -ful.