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

It is a mere bagatelle, and as an amusive trifle may not be unacceptable.

From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 328, August 23, 1828 by Various

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

On clouds, where Fancy’s beam amusive plays, Shall heedless Hope the towering fabric raise?

From The Minstrel; or the Progress of Genius with some other poems by Beattie, James

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

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)