Word:
Ludic
Status:
Adjective
Meaning:
Of, relating or characterized by play: playful: showing spontaneous and indirected playfulness.
Sentences:
1) It was not often when the journalist's nose and the artists's eye made ludic harmony.
2) By showing a girl swinging her yoyo around, the painter was able to create a ludic environment in the painting.
Origin:
French ludique, from Latin ludere which means 'to play', Latin ludus which means 'sport'.
First use:
1940
Synonyms:
play, playful, fun-loving, light-hearted, skittish, rougish.
Antonyms:
solemn, serious, mature.
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