subrisive

English

Etymology

    Borrowed from New Latin subrisivus (“amusing”), from Latin subrīdeō (“to smile”).[1]

    Adjective

    subrisive (comparative more subrisive, superlative most subrisive)

    1. (literary, rare) Playful, tongue-in-cheek.
      • 1885, Grant Allen, Charles Darwin, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton and Company, page 9:
        This half-hearted and somewhat subrisive denial, however, must be taken merely as a concession to the Sorbonne and to the fashionable exegesis of his own day; and, even so, the Sorbonne was too much in the end for the philosophic thinker.

    References

    1. ^ “subrisive, adj.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
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