sportive vs whimsical

sportive

adj

  • Playful, coltish. 

  • Interested in sport. 

  • Sporty, good at sport. 

noun

  • cyclosportive 

whimsical

adj

  • Given to whimsy. 

How often have the words sportive and whimsical occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )