amused

Meaning of amused

adjective
  1. finding something funny or entertaining.
    people looked on with amused curiosity
verb, past tense
  1. cause (someone) to find something funny.
    he made faces to amuse her
  2. provide interesting and enjoyable occupation for (someone); entertain.
    they amused themselves digging through an old encyclopedia
    the hotel has planned many activities to amuse its guests

late 15th century (in the sense ‘delude, deceive’): from Old French amuser ‘entertain, deceive’, from a- (expressing causal effect) + muser ‘stare stupidly’. Current senses date from the mid 17th century.

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Hyphenation of amused

amused

  • It consists of 1 syllables and 6 chars.
  • amused is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable

amused synonyms

Meaning diverted:

diverted, entertained

Meaning provide (someone) with amusement or enjoyment:

entertain

Meaning please (someone) greatly:

delight

Meaning entertain or amuse:

divert

Meaning make glad:

gladden

Meaning satisfy aesthetically:

please

Meaning delight greatly:

charm

Meaning cause (someone) amusement or pleasure:

tickle

Meaning suffer violent involuntary contraction of the muscles, producing contortion of the body or limbs:

convulse

Meaning help (time) pass pleasantly:

beguile

Meaning make (something) more entertaining, interesting, or appealing:

enliven

Meaning entertain or amuse (someone) with talk:

regale

Meaning impress and excite (someone) greatly:

wow

Meaning fill or preoccupy (the mind):

occupy

Meaning occupy or attract (someone's interest or attention):

engage

Meaning keep oneself occupied:

busy

Meaning give work to (someone) and pay them for it:

employ

Meaning prevent (someone) from concentrating on something:

distract

Meaning take up the attention of (someone); interest greatly:

absorb

Meaning absorb all the attention or interest of:

engross

Meaning (of a matter or subject) dominate or engross the mind of (someone) to the exclusion of other thoughts:

preoccupy

Meaning grasp, carry, or support with one's hands:

hold

Meaning dip or submerge in a liquid:

immerse

Meaning excite the curiosity or attention of (someone):

interest

Meaning have or include (something) as a necessary or integral part or result:

involve

amused antonyms

Meaning make (a hole) in something with a tool or by digging:

bore

Meaning make (someone) feel utterly dispirited or dejected:

depress

Translation of amused

Anagrams of amused

masdeu, Medusa, medusa

Words that rhyme with amused

used, caused, chiaused, diapaused, haused, paused, uncaused, abused, bused, debused, disabused, nimbused, overabused, rebused, unabused, accused, caucused, crocused, defocused, excused, focused, fucused, hocused, incused, interaccused, misaccused, misfocused, overfocused, preaccused, preexcused, prefocused, reaccused, recused, refocused, scused, unaccused, unexcused, unfocused, chauffeused, meused, reused, circumfused, confused, defused, diffused, effused, electrofused, fused, hypoperfused, inconfused

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