amusive

American  

[uh-myoo-ziv] / əˈmyu zɪv /

adjective

1. amusing; entertaining.

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Other Word Forms

• amusively adverb
• amusiveness noun

Etymology

Origin of amusive

First recorded in 1720–30; amuse + -ive

Example Sentences

So, ye manufacturers of snake stories horrific, amusive, or instructive, put that against your tales of blacksnakes, copperheads, cotton-mouths, horn-tails, water-mocassins, and the whole tribe else.

From Forest and Frontiers Or, Adventures Among the Indians by Gordon-Cumming, Roualeyn

So in the cloudless sky, amusive shines The soft and mimic scenery; distant hills 390 That, in refracted light, hang beautiful Beneath the golden car of eve, ere yet The daylight lingering fades.

From The Poetical Works of William Lisle Bowles, Vol. 1 With Memoir, Critical Dissertation, and Explanatory Notes by George Gilfillan by Gilfillan, George

Whitehead says: "To me 'twas given to wake th' amusive reed," and Chandler, in his Travels in Greece, speaks of the wind "murmuring amusively among the pines."

From Notes and Queries, Number 179, April 2, 1853. A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc by Bell, George

It is academic and often tumid and wordy, abounding in Latinisms like effusive, precipitant, irriguous, horrific, turgent, amusive.

From A History of English Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century by Beers, Henry A. (Henry Augustin)

Earth has her gorgeous towns; the earth-circling sea Has spires and mansions more amusive still— Men's volant homes that measure liquid space On wheel or wing.

From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 17, No. 493, June 11, 1831 by Various