amusing
Meaning of amusing
adjective
- causing laughter and providing entertainment.
such a likeable, amusing man!
- cause (someone) to find something funny.
he made faces to amuse her
- 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 amusing
amus-ing
- It consists of 2 syllables and 7 chars.
- amusing is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
amusing synonyms
Meaning amusive:
Meaning comic:
comic, comical, funny, laughable, mirthful, risible
Meaning providing amusement or enjoyment:
Meaning causing laughter and amusement; comic:
Meaning fond of or characterized by joking; humorous or playful:
Meaning showing or characterized by quick and inventive verbal humour:
Meaning boisterously merry:
Meaning causing mild amusement; humorous:
Meaning so foolish, unreasonable, or out of place as to be amusing:
Meaning exuberantly lively and amusing:
Meaning treating serious issues with deliberately inappropriate humour; flippant:
Meaning curious or unusual in a way that provokes dry amusement:
Meaning playfully quaint or fanciful, especially in an appealing and amusing way:
Meaning a fictitious prose narrative of book length, typically representing character and action with some degree of realism:
Meaning arousing curiosity or interest; holding or catching the attention:
Meaning charming and attractive:
Meaning charming or enchanting, often in a deceptive way:
Meaning funny or amusing in a slightly odd or peculiar way:
Meaning provide (someone) with amusement or enjoyment:
Meaning please (someone) greatly:
Meaning entertain or amuse:
Meaning make glad:
Meaning satisfy aesthetically:
Meaning delight greatly:
Meaning cause (someone) amusement or pleasure:
Meaning suffer violent involuntary contraction of the muscles, producing contortion of the body or limbs:
Meaning help (time) pass pleasantly:
Meaning make (something) more entertaining, interesting, or appealing:
Meaning entertain or amuse (someone) with talk:
Meaning impress and excite (someone) greatly:
Meaning fill or preoccupy (the mind):
Meaning occupy or attract (someone's interest or attention):
Meaning keep oneself occupied:
Meaning give work to (someone) and pay them for it:
Meaning prevent (someone) from concentrating on something:
Meaning take up the attention of (someone); interest greatly:
Meaning absorb all the attention or interest of:
Meaning (of a matter or subject) dominate or engross the mind of (someone) to the exclusion of other thoughts:
Meaning grasp, carry, or support with one's hands:
Meaning dip or submerge in a liquid:
Meaning excite the curiosity or attention of (someone):
Meaning have or include (something) as a necessary or integral part or result:
amusing antonyms
Meaning not interesting; tedious:
Meaning formal and dignified:
Meaning make (a hole) in something with a tool or by digging:
Meaning make (someone) feel utterly dispirited or dejected:
Translation of amusing
- Italian: buffo, buffa, divertente
- Portuguese: engraçado, divertido
- French: drôle, marrant, comique, amusant, divertissant
- German: lustig, witzig, komisch, spaßig, drollig, amüsant, unterhaltend
- Spanish: divertido, cómico, gracioso, chistoso, divertida, cómica, graciosa, chistosa, entretenido, entretenida
Anagrams of amusing
Words that rhyme with amusing
sing, Christmasing, Dephasing, abasing, abrasing, aliasing, antialiasing, appeasing, basing, biasing, brainteasing, canvasing, carcasing, casing, ceasing, chasing, creasing, databasing, debasing, deceasing, decreasing, degreasing, dephasing, discasing, diseasing, displeasing, dyscrasing, easing, embasing, encasing, enchasing, encreasing, erasing, feasing, freebasing, goliasing, greasing, imbasing, impleasing, incasing, inchasing, increasing, interchasing, lasing, leasing, liasing, lowercasing, masing, measing, metaphrasing
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