amusing

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English

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Etymology

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By surface analysis, amuse +‎ -ing.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /əˈmjuːzɪŋ/
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Verb

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amusing

  1. present participle and gerund of amuse

Adjective

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amusing (comparative more amusing, superlative most amusing)

  1. Entertaining.
    The film has some amusing moments, but it is unlikely to make you laugh out loud.
    • 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 5, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:
      ‘It's rather like a beautiful Inverness cloak one has inherited. Much too good to hide away, so one wears it instead of an overcoat and pretends it's an amusing new fashion.’
    • 2012 December 21, George Monbiot, “Your gift at Christmas will soon be junk”, in The Guardian Weekly[1], volume 188, number 2, page 24:
      They seem amusing on the first day of Christmas, daft on the second, embarrassing on the third. By the twelfth they're in landfill. For 30 seconds of dubious entertainment, or a hedonic stimulus that lasts no longer than a nicotine hit, we commission the use of materials whose impacts will ramify for generations.
  2. Funny, hilarious.
    • 1952 December, 'Mercury', “Modern French Locomotive Performance”, in Railway Magazine, pages 808-809:
      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 unconcealed delight of passengers in the latter.

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