Synonyms:
playful
Meaning: full of fun and high spirits; "playful children just let loose from school"
Usage examples
She was no longer airily playful.
He could not meet her in conversation, rational or playful.
He had a playful humour at moments, and they thought this was one of the moments.
The mother, with a courtly but playful air, granted her pardon with a low salutation.
At the time I write, she is over twenty years old; but hale and hearty, and as playful as a kitten.
"I shall address him, first of all," the Professor explained as we went along, "with a few playful remarks on the weather.
In the evening, the Count called, as he had promised, at the convent, and Emily was surprised to perceive a mixture of playful ridicule and of reserve in his mention of the north apartment.
"Perhaps; but don't set your heart too much on it, for she may not be quite so willing to take such a troublesome charge as Miss Stevens seems to be," he said, returning to his playful tone.
With this in mind, the author has prepared "The Foolish Dictionary," not in serious emulation of the worthier--and wordier--works of Webster and Worcester, but rather in the playful spirit of the parodist, who would gladly direct the faint rays from his flickering candle of fun to the shrine of their great memories.
A third head belonged to a poor little Puss that had died before it had attained the age of cathood; her young life had been knocked out of her with a stick: her head still retained the kitten's playful look, and there was an appealing expression about it as though it had died quickly, wondering in what it had done wrong.