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subrisive

subrisive adjective: playful, tongue-in-cheek.

Adjective

subrisive (comparative more subrisive, superlative most subrisive)

  1. (literary, rare) Playful, tongue-in-cheek.
    • 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.1885, Grant Allen, Charles Darwin, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton and Company, page 9

Forms of subrisive

comparativemore subrisive
superlativemost subrisive

Origin of subrisive

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

Questions about subrisive

What does subrisive mean?
Subrisive means playful, tongue-in-cheek.
What part of speech is subrisive?
Subrisive is an adjective.

Words near subrisive in the dictionary

  1. subrident
  2. subrigid
  3. subring
  4. subrings
  5. subrision
  6. subrisive
  7. subrisk
  8. subrisks
  9. SUBROC
  10. subrogate
  11. subrogated

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