amusing
Entertaining.
Adjective
- Entertaining.
- The film has some amusing moments, but it is unlikely to make you laugh out loud.
- We don’t get amusinger as we get older, we grow prosy and repeat ourselves and talk about our complaints and selfish grievances: but our old friends bear up with our dullness for old times’ sake; […] - 1856 March 10,...
- Never borrow money for my amusements. Now paying Mrs. McCrowder just at this present period would be an amusement. In fact when we consider the quality of the article she gives, I think that paying her on the nail would...
Synonyms: diverting
- Funny, hilarious.
- An amusing incident on the first of these journeys was the checking by signal of the flyer about 3 miles out of Paris, with the result that it was overhauled by the 6.25 p.m. semi-fast from Paris to Montargis, to the...
- [T]hey’d had to call it something – i.e. something that differentiated this occasion from others where they might just go for a pint or a curry. So beer & sausages had somehow happily invented itself, […] The best...
Origin
By surface analysis, amuse + -ing.
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Verb
- present participle and gerund of amuse