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 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

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)

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