divertive

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English

Etymology

From divert +‎ -ive.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /daɪˈvɜː(ɹ)tɪv/

Adjective

divertive (comparative more divertive, superlative most divertive)

  1. (archaic) Tending to divert; amusing; interesting.
    • a. 1729, John Rogers, The Advantages of good Discourse:
      things of a pleasant and divertive nature
    • 1925, Elmer LeRoy Ryer, Ophthalmometry‎, Optical Publishing Company, Preface, page V:
      Divertive theoretic and historic considerations have been scrupulously avoided.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “divertive”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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