entertaining
Meaning of entertaining
adjective
- providing amusement or enjoyment.
a charming and entertaining companion
- provide (someone) with amusement or enjoyment.
a tremendous game that thoroughly entertained the crowd
- give attention or consideration to (an idea or feeling).
Washington entertained little hope of an early improvement in relations
late Middle English: from French entretenir, based on Latin inter ‘among’ + tenere ‘to hold’. The word originally meant ‘maintain, continue’, later ‘maintain in a certain condition, treat in a certain way’, also ‘show hospitality’ (late 15th century).
Information about entertaining
- The plural form of entertaining is: entertainings.
- Languages in which entertaining is used:
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Hyphenation of entertaining
en-ter-tain-ing
- It consists of 4 syllables and 12 chars.
- entertaining is a word polysyllabic because it has four or more syllables
entertaining synonyms
Meaning causing delight; charming:
Meaning (of an activity or occasion) giving delight or pleasure:
Meaning entertaining or amusing:
Meaning causing laughter and providing entertainment:
Meaning pleasing; enjoyable:
Meaning satisfying or appealing:
Meaning giving a sense of happy satisfaction or enjoyment:
Meaning quite enjoyable and pleasurable; pleasant:
Meaning giving pleasure or satisfaction; pleasant or attractive:
Meaning (of a person) pleasing or liked on account of having qualities or interests that are similar to one's own:
Meaning very pleasant or attractive:
Meaning attractive or interesting:
Meaning charming or enchanting, often in a deceptive way:
Meaning delightfully charming or attractive:
Meaning capable of attracting and holding interest; charming:
Meaning charming and attractive:
Meaning arousing curiosity or interest; holding or catching the attention:
Meaning extremely interesting:
Meaning arousing one's curiosity or interest; fascinating:
Meaning intensely interesting; engrossing:
Meaning completely engrossing; compelling:
Meaning evoking interest, attention, or admiration in a powerfully irresistible way:
Meaning causing laughter and amusement; comic:
Meaning causing laughter or amusement; humorous:
Meaning causing mild amusement; humorous:
Meaning showing or characterized by quick and inventive verbal humour:
Meaning curious or unusual in a way that provokes dry amusement:
Meaning amusing, especially in a ludicrous or absurd way:
Meaning extremely amusing:
Meaning amusing, entertaining, or enjoyable:
Meaning cause (someone) to find something funny:
Meaning entertain or amuse:
Meaning prevent (someone) from concentrating on something:
Meaning please (someone) greatly:
Meaning satisfy aesthetically:
Meaning delight greatly:
Meaning shout for joy or in praise or encouragement:
Meaning help (time) pass pleasantly:
Meaning excite the curiosity or attention of (someone):
Meaning attract the strong attention and interest of (someone):
Meaning capture the fascinated attention of:
Meaning occupy or attract (someone's interest or attention):
Meaning have or include (something) as a necessary or integral part or result:
Meaning fill or preoccupy (the mind):
Meaning take up the attention of (someone); interest greatly:
Meaning dip or submerge in a liquid:
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 think carefully about (something), typically before making a decision:
Meaning look thoughtfully for a long time at:
Meaning admit as acceptable or possible:
Meaning allow the existence, occurrence, or practice of (something that one dislikes or disagrees with) without interference:
Meaning a small stream:
Meaning experience or be subjected to (something bad or unpleasant):
Meaning bear all or part of the weight of; hold up:
entertaining antonyms
Meaning not interesting; tedious:
Meaning not arousing curiosity or interest:
Meaning make (a hole) in something with a tool or by digging:
Meaning dismiss as inadequate, unacceptable, or faulty:
Translation of entertaining
- Portuguese: divertido
- Spanish: divertido, entretenido, divertida, entretenida
- French: amusant, divertissant
- Italian: divertente
- German: unterhaltend
Anagrams of entertaining
Words that rhyme with entertaining
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