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

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)

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

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)

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

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