amusive

American  

[uh-myoo-ziv] / əˈmju zɪv /

adjective

1. amusing; entertaining.

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Other Word Forms

• amusiveness
  noun
• amusively
  adverb

Etymology

Origin of amusive

First recorded in 1720–30; amuse + -ive

Example Sentences

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amusive

He uses too many Latin epithets, like amusive and precipitant, and calls a fish-line The floating line snatched from the hoary steed.

From From Chaucer to Tennyson by Beers, Henry A. (Henry Augustin)

He uses too many Latin epithets, like amusive and precipitant, and calls a fish-line "The floating line snatched from the hoary steed."

From Brief History of English and American Literature by Beers, Henry A. (Henry Augustin)

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

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

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