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lusorious

lusorious adjective: pertaining to a sport, game or pastime.

Adjective

lusorious (comparative more lusorious, superlative most lusorious)

  1. Pertaining to a sport, game or pastime.
    • Many too nicely take exceptions at cards, tables, and dice, and such mixed lusorious lots […], II.2.4
    • Not gyved with connubial relations, I entered upon my migration entirely isolated, with the exception of a canine quadruped whose mordacious, latrant, lusorious, and venatic qualities, are without parity.1856, Samuel Klinefelter Hoshour, Letters to Squire Pedant, in the East, page 13

Forms of lusorious

comparativemore lusorious
superlativemost lusorious

Origin of lusorious

From Latin lūsōrius, from lūsor (“player”).

Questions about lusorious

What does lusorious mean?
Lusorious means pertaining to a sport, game or pastime.
What part of speech is lusorious?
Lusorious is an adjective.

Words near lusorious in the dictionary

  1. Lusophobic
  2. lusophone
  3. lusophones
  4. lusophonic
  5. Lusophony
  6. lusorious
  7. lusory
  8. lusotropical
  9. lusotropicalism
  10. luspatercept
  11. Luss

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