engaging
Meaning of engaging
adjective
- charming and attractive.
an engaging smile
- occupy or attract (someone's interest or attention).
he ploughed on, trying to outline his plans and engage Sutton's attention
I told him I was otherwise engaged
- participate or become involved in.
organizations engage in a variety of activities
some are actively engaged in crime
- arrange to employ or hire (someone).
he was engaged as a trainee copywriter
- (with reference to a part of a machine or engine) move into position so as to come into operation.
the clutch will not engage
the driver engaged the gears and pulled out into the road
- (of fencers or swordsmen) bring (weapons) together preparatory to fighting.
late Middle English (formerly also as ingage ): from French engager, ultimately from the base of gage1. The word originally meant ‘to pawn or pledge something’, later ‘pledge oneself (to do something’), hence ‘enter into a contract’ (mid 16th century), ‘involve oneself in an activity’, ‘enter into combat’ (mid 17th century), giving rise to the notion ‘involve someone or something else’.
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Hyphenation of engaging
en-gag-ing
- It consists of 3 syllables and 8 chars.
- engaging is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables
engaging synonyms
Meaning piquant:
Meaning very pleasant or attractive:
Meaning attractive or interesting:
Meaning (of a person) appealing to look at; sexually alluring:
Meaning (of a person, especially a woman or child) attractive in a delicate way without being truly beautiful:
Meaning causing delight; charming:
Meaning very beautiful or attractive:
Meaning satisfying or appealing:
Meaning (of a person or their manner) friendly and considerate; likeable:
Meaning quite enjoyable and pleasurable; pleasant:
Meaning (especially of a person) pleasant, friendly, and easy to like:
Meaning inspiring or deserving love or affection:
Meaning (of a person or action) pleasant and kind or thoughtful:
Meaning attractive; endearing:
Meaning attractive or appealing in a fresh, innocent way:
Meaning attractive:
Meaning extremely bright, especially so as to blind the eyes temporarily:
Meaning striking; eye-catching:
Meaning capable of attracting and holding interest; charming:
Meaning delightfully charming or attractive:
Meaning enchanting or delightful:
Meaning powerfully and mysteriously attractive or fascinating; seductive:
Meaning too attractive and tempting to be resisted:
Meaning having a magical or pleasantly unreal quality; dreamlike:
Meaning of heaven; divine:
Meaning very pleasing; delightful:
Meaning beautiful; very attractive:
Meaning attractive or beautiful:
Meaning excellent; wonderful:
Meaning (of a person) captivating in manner; charming:
Meaning pleasant to look at; attractive (typically used of a woman):
Meaning treating people equally without favouritism or discrimination:
Meaning take into one's possession or control by force:
Meaning engage (a person's interest or imagination):
Meaning attract the attention of (someone):
Meaning grasp or seize suddenly and roughly:
Meaning take hold of suddenly and forcibly:
Meaning attract (someone) to come to a place or an event:
Meaning cause (someone) to have a liking for or interest in something:
Meaning obtain or secure (something wanted or desirable):
Meaning be successful or victorious in (a contest or conflict):
Meaning attract and hold the interest and attention of; charm:
Meaning keep (someone's interest or attention):
Meaning firmly hold the attention or interest of:
Meaning absorb all the attention or interest of:
Meaning take up the attention of (someone); interest greatly:
Meaning fill or preoccupy (the mind):
Meaning commit oneself to and begin (an enterprise or responsibility); take on:
Meaning give work to (someone) and pay them for it:
Meaning obtain the temporary use of (something) for an agreed payment:
Meaning enlist (someone) in the armed forces:
Meaning recruit (someone) to perform a service:
Meaning assign a job or role to (someone):
Meaning order or authorize (a person or organization) to do or produce something:
Meaning enrol or be enrolled in the armed services:
Meaning keep (someone) engaged in one's service:
Meaning (of two or more things) engage with each other by overlapping or by the fitting together of projections and recesses:
Meaning connect with each other:
Meaning (of the teeth of a gearwheel) be engaged with another gearwheel:
Meaning (of two or more things) mesh with one another:
Meaning link; connect:
Meaning come or bring together for a common purpose or action:
Meaning bring together or into contact so that a real or notional link is established:
Meaning put a yoke on (a pair of animals); couple or attach with or to a yoke:
Meaning (of animals or birds) come together for breeding; copulate:
Meaning link or combine (something) with something else:
engaging antonyms
Meaning not inviting or attractive:
Meaning be deprived of or cease to have or retain (something):
Meaning order or allow to leave; send away:
Meaning separate or release (someone or something) from something to which they are attached or connected:
Translation of engaging
- Italian: gradevole, gentile, piacevole, cortese
- Spanish: encantador, agradable, afable, amable, gentil, simpático, simpática, encantadora
- French: gentil, charmant, agréable, plaisant
- German: nett, charmant, angenehm, entzückend, lieblich, anziehend, bezaubernd, gefällig, fein
- Portuguese: gentil, simpático
Words that rhyme with engaging
ging, Photoaging, accoraging, advantaging, aging, amenaging, antiaging, apanaging, appanaging, arbitraging, assuaging, asswaging, averaging, badinaging, bandaging, barraging, bordraging, cabbaging, caging, camouflaging, collaging, comanaging, cottaging, damaging, decoupaging, disadvantaging, discaging, discouraging, disengaging, dismortgaging, disparaging, dunnaging, effleuraging, encaging, encouraging, endamaging, enddamaging, enraging, ensilaging, envisaging, equipaging, foggaging, foliaging, foraging, gaging, galravaging, garaging, gillravaging, gilravaging, haemorrhaging
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