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Definition: Interesting |
InterestingAdjective1. Arousing or holding the attention. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "interesting" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1550. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Computing | Interesting adj. In hacker parlance, this word has strong connotations of `annoying', or `difficult', or both. Hackers relish a challenge, and enjoy wringing all the irony possible out of the ancient Chinese curse "May you live in interesting times". Oppose trivial, uninteresting. Source: Jargon File. |
Multilingual Slang | Swiss German (uufgschtellt). (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Antonym: uninteresting (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Attention | Interesting, engrossing, mesmerizing, riveting. |
Love | Lovable, adorable; lovely, sweet; attractive, seductive, winning; charming, engaging, interesting, enchanting, captivating, fascinating, bewitching; amiable, like an angel. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Famous people are just more interesting. (Almost Famous; writing credit: Cameron Crowe) You're an interesting species, an interesting mix. You're capable of such beautiful dreams and such horrible nightmares (Contact; writing credit: Carl Sagan;) It's interesting. (The Green Mile; writing credit: Frank Darabont) I wanted to meet stimulating and interesting people of an ancient culture, and kill them (Full Metal Jacket; writing credit: Gustav Hasford; Michael Herr) It's an interesting theory (Trainspotting; writing credit: Irvine Welsh; John Hodge) | |
Lyrics | This is a very interesting situation (Let's Get Back; performing artist: Gwen Stefani) | |
Clever | If to be interesting is to be uncommonplace, it is becoming a question, with me, if there are any commonplace people. (references; author: Mark Twain) War talk by men who have been in a war is always interesting; whereas moon talk by a poet who has not been in the moon is likely to be dull. (references; author: Mark Twain) I found being an electrician interesting, but the work was shocking. (references; author: unknown) A checkride ought to be like a skirt: short enough to be interesting, but long enough to cover everything. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Paramount Pacemaker: The Littlest Expert on Interesting People (1952) An Interesting Story (1904) Interesting Parlor Scene (1897) | |
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 | Shows photo of NCI's first scientific staff gathered around conference room table. (very interesting shot in the dark with a slide projected on the screen which reflects off the table. Credit: Unknown photographer/artist. |  | An aerial with a closer view of the containment dike on the right. One interesting feature to note is the multiple outlets pumping sediment onto the island. East Timbalier Island was sediment starved, the pumping of sediments onto the marsh platform is helping the island to accrete. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center. |
 | The Agua Fria National Monument is only 40 miles outside of Phoenix. It can be accessed by taking Interstate 17 to Badger Springs or Bloody Basin Road. There are great photo opportunities and interesting places to explore. Credit: John Beckett. |  | Interesting rock formation, Lakeview District. Credit: Terry Spivey. |
 | At Newport, Rhode Island, on 7 October 1916. She subsequently attacked Allied shipping off the U.S. East Coast. USS Birmingham (Scout Cruiser # 2) is in the right distance. Note tall radio masts and German Navy flags on the submarine, and the interesting small boat tied up alongside. Credit: NAVY. |  | Halftone reproduction of a close-up photograph published in the "Strand Magazine", 1st Quarter 1901, showing dents in the monitor's turret armor made by Confederate cannon shot during the Civil War. These same dents are visible in Photo # NH 59436, taken circa 1864-65. An interesting optical illusion can be seen if this image is turned upside down. Credit: NAVY. |
 | An interesting family. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Interesting debate on the ship purchase bill which closed in the U.S. Senate last evening. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | On my first trip, which was highly interesting, I managed to pick up a few things in the agricultural line. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | This is going to be interesting!. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Hmm..very interesting" by Liz Allen Commentary: "Kitten portrait, paw on chin." | "Naturally Twisting" by John W. Thompson Commentary: "Some interesting plants I found one day whilst walking in Fussa City, Japan. A lot of green I know, but please view this in the large version. ." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. | |
| Author | Quotation |
Author Unknown | A talk is like a woman's dress. Long enough to cover the subject, but short enough to be interesting. |
Friedrich Nietzsche | In Heaven all the interesting people are missing. |
Henry David Thoreau | Farmers are respectable and interesting to me in proportion as they are poor. |
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe | Thinking is more interesting than knowing, but less interesting than looking. |
| Plunge boldly into the thick of life, and seize it where you will, it is always interesting. | |
John Kenneth Galbraith | There is certainly no absolute standard of beauty. That precisely is what makes its pursuit so interesting. |
Marcus T. Cicero | The causes of events are ever more interesting than the events themselves. |
Penny Press | A single fact will often spoil an interesting argument. |
Walter Bagehot | A family on the throne is an interesting idea. It brings down the pride of sovereignty to the level of petty life. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| Author | Date | Quotation |
Marbury v. Madison | 1803 | The question, whether an act, repugnant to the constitution, can become the law of the land, is a question deeply interesting to the United States; but happily, not of an intricacy proportioned to its interest. (reference) |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Emma | Austen, Jane | Such events are very interesting, but the suspense of them cannot last long |
Sylvie and Bruno | Carroll, Lewis | And it would be very interesting, coming into contact with the races below us. |
Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency | Douglas Adams | Well, said Reg, "it’s been an interesting time recently, or rather, a dull time |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | One interesting and picturesque peculiarity of this kind of tenement is the monstrous size of the spiders |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | That is a most interesting word |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | It is an interesting question how far men would retain their relative rank if they were divested of their clothes |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Mapping the positions of apoptotic cells within these spinal cords revealed interesting patterns. (references) | |
The interesting relationship between H. pylori infection and gastric cancers requires further exploration. (references) | ||
If you see an interesting item, visit your local medical library to check on the availability of the title. (references) | ||
Business | However there are some interesting decentralization trends. (references) | |
This has created interesting synergies in German specialty stores. (references) | ||
The Czech Republic continues to be an interesting partner for outbound tourism. (references) | ||
Economic History | Panama | The most interesting sector for new foreign investment is in the former Canal Zone and associated military bases. (references) |
Ukraine | The Azov-Black Sea shelf presents interesting investment possibilities in capacity expansion and hydrocarbon extraction. (references) | |
Ukraine | Lviv, included in the UNESCO list of historic treasures, may be especially interesting for construction and design companies. (references) | |
Travel | Russia | Russian food is not exotic to American tastes, and many visitors find such regional cuisine as Caucasian, Georgian, and Uzbek to be interesting contrasts. (references) |
Trinidad | There are several interesting day and overnight excursions on Trinidad island, and Tobago, a more traditional Caribbean tourist destination, is a short 20-minute flight away. (references) | |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | LEAD, n. A heavy blue-gray metal much used in giving stability to light lovers -- particularly to those who love not wisely but other men's wives. Lead is also of great service as a counterpoise to an argument of such weight that it turns the scale of debate the wrong way. An interesting fact in the chemistry of international controversy is that at the point of contact of two patriotisms lead is precipitated in great quantities. Hail, holy Lead! -- of human feuds the great And universal arbiter; endowed With penetration to pierce any cloud Fogging the field of controversial hate, And with a sift, inevitable, straight, Searching precision find the unavowed But vital point. Thy judgment, when allowed By the chirurgeon, settles the debate. O useful metal! -- were it not for thee We'd grapple one another's ears alway: But when we hear thee buzzing like a bee We, like old Muhlenberg, "care not to stay." And when the quick have run away like pellets Jack Satan smelts the dead to make new bullets. |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Dennis Miller | My big complaint about cloning is that most human beings I meet aren't interesting enough to fill up one existence, much less two. |
James Lipton | I agree with you. I think that anybody's craft is fascinating. A taxi driver talking about taxi driving is going to be very, very interesting. |
John Miller | Yeah, I went through the federal government's training course for first responders to turn them into hazmat technicians to focus on chemical and biological warfare, which actually turned out to be interesting timing. |
King Constantine of Greece | It's interesting that you mentioned Cassius Clay or Muhammad Ali, because I remember watching him win his gold medal the day after I had won mine. |
Liza Minnelli | What I'm saying is that I tried very hard to give them my reality and my reality is kind of interesting. |
Mariah Carey | This is the one I had. It's kind of like a jokey one, but then when I found out that my grandmother had one, I thought it was just an interesting parallel. |
Rush Limbaugh | But what's interesting is that the same media establishment quick to label Right-wing extremists, refuses to call this admitted pipe bomber, a Left-wing extremist. |
Sela Ward | That's right, Roland Emmerich directed, and I just finished my work on it actually in Montreal and it should be one of those big, big interesting movies. The Ice Age comes to Manhattan. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
George Washington | 1789-1797 | Among the many interesting objects which will engage your attention that of providing for the common defense will merit particular regard. |
John Adams | 1797-1801 | Coming from all parts of the Union at this critical and interesting period, the members must be fully possessed of the sentiments and wishes of our constituents. |
Thomas Jefferson | 1801-1809 | In a government bottomed on the will of all the life and liberty of every individual citizen become interesting to all. |
James Madison | 1809-1817 | To a thriving agriculture and the improvements related to it is added a highly interesting extension of useful manufactures, the combined product of professional occupations and of household industry. |
James Monroe | 1817-1825 | Our attitude is highly interesting as relates to other powers, and particularly to our southern neighbors. |
Andrew Jackson | 1829-1837 | With Great Britain the interesting question of our North East boundary remains still undecided. |
Bill Clinton | 1993-2001 | I know that a lot of you have your own ideas about tax relief, and some of them I find quite interesting. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Interesting" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 99.94% of the time. "Interesting" is used about 9,578 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 99.94% | 9,572 | 994 |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 0.04% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Noun (singular) | 0.02% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 9,578 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "interesting": an interesting sight ♦ being interesting ♦ highly interesting ♦ in an interesting condition ♦ very interesting. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "interesting": interesting-looking. | |
Ending with "interesting": mega-interesting, things-were-just-getting-interesting. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "interesting"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | interessant, belangwekkend. (various references) | |
Albanian | interesante, interesant (curiously, entertaining, enthralling, good looking, interestingly, juicy, living, nutty, picturesque, sapid), tërheqës (absorbing, absorptive, adorable, alluring, appealing, attractable, attractive, catchy, charismatic, comely, cunning, cute, drawer, dreamy, engaging, engrossing, enticing, fetching, inviting, jolly, likable, likeable, nice, personable, pleasing, pretty, showy, sightly, winsome). (various references) | |
Arabic | فيه متعة, ممتع (delightful, engaging, enjoyable, entertaining, fine, good, gratifying, lovely, pleasant, pleasing, pleasurable, refreshing, sapid, sightly, what fun), مثير للإنتباه, مرغب في, مشوق (motivating). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | увлекателен (absorbing, engrossing, enthralling, exciting, readable), занимателен (amusing, entertaining, recreational, recreative, sportful), забавен (amusing, comic, comical, delayed, diverting, entertaining, funny, laughable, merry, recreational, recreative, sportful), привлекателен (alluring, appealing, attractive, catching, catchy, congenial, cute, debonair, desirable, engaging, enticing, fetching, ingratiating, inviting, lickerish, likable, likeable, likely, lovable, pleasing, prepossessing, pretty, seductive, sightly, taking, tempting, winsome, yummy), интересен (arresting, exciting, newsy, picturesque, provocative, sapid). (various references) | |
Chinese | 趣 (to interest), 有趣 (amusing, fascinating), 有興趣 (interested), 有意思 , 感兴趣 (interested). (various references) | |
Czech | zajímavý (remarkable, sapid). (various references) | |
Danish | interessant. (various references) | |
Dutch | interessant, belangwekkend. (various references) | |
Esperanto | interesa, kurioza (curious, quaint). (various references) | |
Faeroese | sjáldsamur (curious, precious, quaint, rare), løgin (comic, comical, curious, funny, odd, peculiar, quaint, strange), forvitnisligur, áhugaverdur. (various references) | |
Finnish | mielenkiintoinen, kummallinen (curious, odd, peculiar, quaint, queer, strange), kiinnostava. (various references) | |
French | singulier (individual), intéressant, curieux (inquiring, inquisitive, intriguing). (various references) | |
Frisian | ynteressant. (various references) | |
German | interessant (absorbing, fascinating, interestedly, interestingly). (various references) | |
Greek | ενδιαφέρων (zestful). (various references) | |
Hawaiian | interesante. (various references) | |
Hebrew | מענין (absorbing). (various references) | |
Hungarian | érdekes (great card, intriguing, juicy, literature of escape, quaint, readable). (various references) | |
Indonesian | gayeng (cheerful, pleasant, warm). (various references) | |
Irish | spéisiúla. (various references) | |
Italian | interessante (juicy, newsworthy, readable). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 面白い (amusing), 面白い (amusing), 面白 (amusing). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | おもしろい (amusing), おもしろ (amusing). (various references) | |
Korean | 관심을 끄. (various references) | |
Malay | menarik. (various references) | |
Manx | symoil. (various references) | |
Norwegian | interessant (intriguing). (various references) | |
Papiamen | interesante. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | interestingay.(various references) | |
Polish | ciekawy. (various references) | |
Portuguese | interessante (entertaining, juicy, newsworthy, sapid). (various references) | |
Portuguese Brazilian | interessantes. (various references) | |
Romanian | interesant (amusing, appealing, attractive, catchy, fruity, nutty, readable, sapid, strange), important (big, consequential, considerable, goodly, grave, great, high, high-class, important, momentous, outstanding, prime, relevant, serious, significant, significative, substantial, weighty), plin de interes (interested). (various references) | |
Russian | занятный (amusing), интересный (good looking, nutty, riveting, sapid, scintillating), интересно интересный интересоваться. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | interesantan, zanimljiv (amusing, diverting). (various references) | |
Spanish | interesante (absorbing, cool, intriguing, refreshing). (various references) | |
Swedish | intressant (interestingly, intriguing). (various references) | |
Turkish | ilginç (absorbing, amazing, curious, engrossing, exciting, far out, fastmoving, gripping, juicy, kooky, picturesque, quaint, quirky, taking), ilgi çekici (absorbing, attractive, challenging, intriguing), enteresan. (various references) | |
Turkmen | tдsirli (impressive, influential), hezil (captivating, pleasing), gyzykly. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | цікавий (amusing, curious, entertaining, newsworthy, nosey, nosy, nutty, pry, visitable), важливий (big, consequential, considerable, earnest, grand, grave, important, influential, momentous, newsworthy, purposeful, serious, weighty), зворушливий (affecting, appealing, feeling, moving, pathetic, pathetical, touching). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | làm quan tâm, làm chú ý có thai, có mang (big, enceinte). (various references) | |
Welsh | diddorol. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "interesting": interestingly, interestingness, interestingnesses. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "interesting": disinteresting, uninteresting. (additional references) | |
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"Interesting" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: inteesting, interasting, intercsting, interecting, intereshing, interessting, interesteng, int-eresting, intereting, interisting, interrestin, interseeting, intersesting, intersexing, intersting, intresting. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "interesting" (pronounced i"ntrusting or i"nterusting) |
| 9 | i" n t r u s t i ng | uninteresting. |
| 5 | -u s t i ng | harvesting. |
| 4 | -s t i ng | accosting, adjusting, arresting, assisting, attesting, besting, blacklisting, blasting, boasting, boosting, breasting, broadcasting, bursting, busting, casting, coasting, coexisting, composting, consisting, contesting, contrasting, costing, cresting, defrosting, delisting, digesting, disgusting, divesting, dusting, encrusting, enlisting, entrusting, everlasting, exhausting, existing, fasting, feasting, forecasting, frosting, gusting, Hasting, hoisting, hosting, ingesting, insisting, investing, jousting, lambasting, lasting, listing, lusting, manifesting, molesting, nesting, ousting, pasting, persisting, posting, preexisting, protesting, readjusting, recasting, reinvesting, requesting, resisting, resting, retesting, roasting, rusting, suggesting, tasting, testing, thrusting, toasting, trusting, twisting, typecasting, vesting, wasting, wresting. |
| 3 | -t i ng | annotating, anticipating, appointing, appreciating, appropriating, approximating, arbitrating, abrogating, abutting, accelerating, accenting, accentuating, accepting, accommodating, abating, abbreviating, abdicating, abducting, abetting, aborting, accounting, accrediting, accumulating, acquitting, acting, activating, adapting, addicting, adjudicating, administrating, admitting, adopting, advocating, affecting, affiliating, afflicting, aggravating, agitating, airlifting, alerting, alienating, alleviating, allocating, allotting, alternating, amounting, articulating, assassinating, assaulting, asserting, assimilating, associating, attempting, attracting, attributing, auditing, augmenting, authenticating, automating, averting, awaiting, babysitting, backbiting, baiting, balloting, bankrupting, batting, beating, befitting, begetting, belting, benefiting, benefitting, berating, besetting, betting, biting, bitting, blanketing, bloating, bloodletting, blunting, boating, bolting, booting, boycotting, budgeting, bullfighting, bunting, butting, calculating, captivating, carpeting, carting, castigating, castrating, catapulting, cavorting, celebrating, cementing, chanting, charting, chatting, cheating, chlorinating, circulating, circumventing, citing, clotting, coagulating, coating, cohabiting, collaborating, collecting, combating, combatting, comforting, commemorating, commenting, committing, communicating, commuting, compensating, competing, complementing, completing, complicating, complimenting, computing, concentrating, concocting, conducting, confiscating, conflicting, confronting, congratulating, connecting, consenting, consolidating, consorting, constituting, constricting, constructing, consulting, consummating, contacting, contaminating, contemplating, contracting, contradicting, contributing, converting, convicting, cooperating, coordinating, copycatting, correcting, correlating, corroborating, corrupting, counteracting, Counterfeiting, counting, courting, crafting, crating, creating, crediting, culminating, cultivating, cutting, darting, dating, daunting, debating, debilitating, decaffeinating, decanting, decelerating, decimating, decorating, dedicating, deducting, defaulting, defeating, defecting, deflating, deflecting, degenerating, delegating, deleting, deliberating, delighting, delineating, demonstrating, denigrating, denting, departing, depicting, depleting, deporting, depositing, deprecating, depreciating, deregulating, deserting, designating, destructing, detecting, deteriorating, detonating, detracting, devastating, devoting, dictating, dieting, differentiating, diluting, directing, disappointing, disconcerting, disconnecting, discounting, discrediting, discriminating, disintegrating, disorienting, dispiriting, disputing, disquieting, disrespecting, disrupting, dissecting, disseminating, dissenting, dissipating, distorting, distracting, distributing, districting, diverting, documenting, domesticating, dominating, donating, doting, dotting, doubting, drafting, drifting, duplicating, eating, editing, educating, effecting, elaborating, elating, electing, electroplating, elevating, eliciting, eliminating, emanating, emigrating, emitting, emulating, enacting, encapsulating, enchanting, enunciating, equating, equivocating, eradicating, erecting, erupting, escalating, escorting, estimating, evacuating, evaluating, evaporating, evicting, exacerbating, exacting, exaggerating, exalting, exasperating, excavating, excepting, exciting, excoriating, excruciating, executing, exempting, exerting, exhibiting, exhilarating, exhorting, exiting, exonerating, expecting, expediting, experimenting, exploiting, exporting, extenuating, exterminating, extorting, extracting, extraditing, extrapolating, fabricating, facilitating, fainting, fascinating, faulting, fermenting, ferreting, Fetting, fidgeting, fighting, fingerprinting, firefighting, fitting, flaunting, fleeting, flirting, flitting, floating, flouting, fluctuating, fomenting, footing, footnoting, forfeiting, forgetting, formulating, fragmenting, fretting, fronting, fruiting, frustrating, generating, getting, gifting, glinting, gloating, graduating, grafting, granting, grating, gravitating, greeting, gritting, grouting, grunting, gunfighting, gutting, gyrating, hallucinating, halting, handwriting, hating, haunting, heating, hesitating, highlighting, hinting, hitting, homeporting, humiliating, hunting, hurting, hydrogenating, igniting, illuminating, illustrating, imitating, impacting, imparting, impersonating, implanting, implementing, implicating, importing, imprinting, inaugurating, incapacitating, incarcerating, incinerating, inciting, incorporating, incriminating, incubating, indicating, indicting, infatuating, infecting, infighting, infiltrating, inflating, inflicting, infuriating, ingratiating, inhabiting, inheriting, inhibiting, initiating, injecting, innovating, inserting, insinuating, inspecting, instigating, instituting, instructing, insulating, insulting, integrating, interacting, intercepting, interdicting, interpreting, interrogating, interrupting, intersecting, intimidating, intoxicating, inundating, invalidating, inventing, investigating, invigorating, inviting, irritating, isolating, jetting, jolting, jutting, kiting, knitting, lactating, lamenting, laminating, legislating, letting, levitating, liberating, lifting, lighting, limiting, liquidating, litigating, locating, looting, lubricating, malting, mandating, manipulating, marketing, marting, masturbating, mating, matting, mediating, meditating, meeting, melting, migrating, minting, misappropriating, misinterpreting, misrepresenting, misstating, mistreating, mitigating, moderating, molting, moonlighting, motivating, mounting, mutating, mutilating, muting, nauseating, navigating, necessitating, negating, neglecting, negotiating, netting, nitrating, nominating, nonbiting, nonoperating, nonsporting, nonvoting, noting, Nutting, objecting, obliterating, obstructing, obviating, officiating, offsetting, omitting, operating, opting, orbiting, orchestrating, originating, oscillating, Outfitting, outing, outwitting, overeating, overestimating, overheating, overreacting, overshooting, overstating, painting, panting, parachuting, parenting, participating, parting, patenting, patting, penetrating, percolating, perfecting, permeating, permitting, perpetrating, perpetuating, persecuting, perverting, petting, picketing, piloting, pinpointing, pirating, pitting, placating, planting, plating, plotting, plummeting, pocketing, pointing, polluting, pontificating, populating, porting, pouting, precipitating, predicting, predominating, preempting, presenting, preventing, printing, procrastinating, profiting, prognosticating, prohibiting, projecting, proliferating, promoting, prompting, promulgating, propagating, prosecuting, prospecting, protecting, pulsating, purporting, putting, quieting, quilting, quitting, quoting, radiating, rafting, ranting, ratcheting, rating, reacting, reactivating, reallocating, reasserting, rebutting, recalculating, recanting, reciprocating, reciting, recollecting, reconnecting, reconstituting, reconstructing, recounting, recreating, recruiting, recuperating, redacting, redecorating, redirecting, redistributing, redistricting, reelecting, reevaluating, refitting, reflecting, refuting, regenerating, regretting, regulating, rehabilitating, reigniting, reincorporating, reinstating, reinstituting, reinterpreting, reinventing, reinvigorating, reiterating, rejecting, rejuvenating, relating, relegating, relenting, relocating, remarketing, renegotiating, renovating, renting, repainting, repatriating, repeating, replanting, replicating, reporting, representing, reprinting, repudiating, rerouting, resenting, resonating, resorting, respecting, restarting, restating, restricting, resubmitting, resulting, resurrecting, resuscitating, retaliating, retracting, retreating, retrofitting, reuniting, reverberating, reverting, revisiting, revolting, rewriting, rioting, riveting, rocketing, rooting, rotating, rotting, salivating, salting, saluting, saturating, scapegoating, scouting, sculpting, seating, sedating, segregating, selecting, separating, setting, shafting, sheeting, shifting, shooting, shoplifting, shorting, shouting, shunting, shutting, sifting, sighting, simulating, siting, sitting, skating, skirting, skyrocketing, skywriting, slanting, slighting, slitting, slotting, smarting, smelting, snorting, soliciting, somersaulting, songwriting, sorting, speculating, spitting, splitting, sporting, spotlighting, spotting, spouting, sprinting, sprouting, spurting, squatting, squinting, squirting, stagnating, starting, stating, stimulating, stipulating, strutting, subcontracting, subjecting, submitting, subordinating, substituting, subtracting, subverting, suffocating, superconducting, supplanting, supplementing, supporting, surmounting, suspecting, sweating, Sweeting, syndicating, tabulating, tainting, targeting, taunting, telecommuting, telemarketing, tempting, tenting, terminating, thermosetting, thwarting, ticketing, tilting, titillating, tolerating, tormenting, toting, touting, translating, transmitting, transplanting, transporting, treating, trotting, trumpeting, typesetting, Typewriting, undercutting, underestimating, underreporting, understating, underwriting, undulating, unexciting, uninviting, uniting, unrelenting, unremitting, unseating, unstinting, unsuspecting, unwitting, updating, uplifting, uprooting, upsetting, urinating, vacating, vacillating, validating, vaulting, ventilating, venting, vetting, vibrating, violating, visiting, vomiting, voting, wafting, waiting, wanting, weighting, weightlifting, wetting, whiting, wildcatting, wilting, witting, writing, yachting. |
| 5 | -u s t i ng | harvesting, uninteresting. |
| 4 | -s t i ng | accosting, adjusting, arresting, assisting, attesting, besting, blacklisting, blasting, boasting, boosting, breasting, broadcasting, bursting, busting, casting, coasting, coexisting, composting, consisting, contesting, contrasting, costing, cresting, defrosting, delisting, digesting, disgusting, divesting, dusting, encrusting, enlisting, entrusting, everlasting, exhausting, existing, fasting, feasting, forecasting, frosting, gusting, Hasting, hoisting, hosting, ingesting, insisting, investing, jousting, lambasting, lasting, listing, lusting, manifesting, molesting, nesting, ousting, pasting, persisting, posting, preexisting, protesting, readjusting, recasting, reinvesting, requesting, resisting, resting, retesting, roasting, rusting, suggesting, tasting, testing, thrusting, toasting, trusting, twisting, typecasting, vesting, wasting, wresting. |
| 3 | -t i ng | annotating, anticipating, appointing, appreciating, appropriating, approximating, arbitrating, abrogating, abutting, accelerating, accenting, accentuating, accepting, accommodating, abating, abbreviating, abdicating, abducting, abetting, aborting, accounting, accrediting, accumulating, acquitting, acting, activating, adapting, addicting, adjudicating, administrating, admitting, adopting, advocating, affecting, affiliating, afflicting, aggravating, agitating, airlifting, alerting, alienating, alleviating, allocating, allotting, alternating, amounting, articulating, assassinating, assaulting, asserting, assimilating, associating, attempting, attracting, attributing, auditing, augmenting, authenticating, automating, averting, awaiting, babysitting, backbiting, baiting, balloting, bankrupting, batting, beating, befitting, begetting, belting, benefiting, benefitting, berating, besetting, betting, biting, bitting, blanketing, bloating, bloodletting, blunting, boating, bolting, booting, boycotting, budgeting, bullfighting, bunting, butting, calculating, captivating, carpeting, carting, castigating, castrating, catapulting, cavorting, celebrating, cementing, chanting, charting, chatting, cheating, chlorinating, circulating, circumventing, citing, clotting, coagulating, coating, cohabiting, collaborating, collecting, combating, combatting, comforting, commemorating, commenting, committing, communicating, commuting, compensating, competing, complementing, completing, complicating, complimenting, computing, concentrating, concocting, conducting, confiscating, conflicting, confronting, congratulating, connecting, consenting, consolidating, consorting, constituting, constricting, constructing, consulting, consummating, contacting, contaminating, contemplating, contracting, contradicting, contributing, converting, convicting, cooperating, coordinating, copycatting, correcting, correlating, corroborating, corrupting, counteracting, Counterfeiting, counting, courting, crafting, crating, creating, crediting, culminating, cultivating, cutting, darting, dating, daunting, debating, debilitating, decaffeinating, decanting, decelerating, decimating, decorating, dedicating, deducting, defaulting, defeating, defecting, deflating, deflecting, degenerating, delegating, deleting, deliberating, delighting, delineating, demonstrating, denigrating, denting, departing, depicting, depleting, deporting, depositing, deprecating, depreciating, deregulating, deserting, designating, destructing, detecting, deteriorating, detonating, detracting, devastating, devoting, dictating, dieting, differentiating, diluting, directing, disappointing, disconcerting, disconnecting, discounting, discrediting, discriminating, disintegrating, disorienting, dispiriting, disputing, disquieting, disrespecting, disrupting, dissecting, disseminating, dissenting, dissipating, distorting, distracting, distributing, districting, diverting, documenting, domesticating, dominating, donating, doting, dotting, doubting, drafting, drifting, duplicating, eating, editing, educating, effecting, elaborating, elating, electing, electroplating, elevating, eliciting, eliminating, emanating, emigrating, emitting, emulating, enacting, encapsulating, enchanting, enunciating, equating, equivocating, eradicating, erecting, erupting, escalating, escorting, estimating, evacuating, evaluating, evaporating, evicting, exacerbating, exacting, exaggerating, exalting, exasperating, excavating, excepting, exciting, excoriating, excruciating, executing, exempting, exerting, exhibiting, exhilarating, exhorting, exiting, exonerating, expecting, expediting, experimenting, exploiting, exporting, extenuating, exterminating, extorting, extracting, extraditing, extrapolating, fabricating, facilitating, fainting, fascinating, faulting, fermenting, ferreting, Fetting, fidgeting, fighting, fingerprinting, firefighting, fitting, flaunting, fleeting, flirting, flitting, floating, flouting, fluctuating, fomenting, footing, footnoting, forfeiting, forgetting, formulating, fragmenting, fretting, fronting, fruiting, frustrating, generating, getting, gifting, glinting, gloating, graduating, grafting, granting, grating, gravitating, greeting, gritting, grouting, grunting, gunfighting, gutting, gyrating, hallucinating, halting, handwriting, hating, haunting, heating, hesitating, highlighting, hinting, hitting, homeporting, humiliating, hunting, hurting, hydrogenating, igniting, illuminating, illustrating, imitating, impacting, imparting, impersonating, implanting, implementing, implicating, importing, imprinting, inaugurating, incapacitating, incarcerating, incinerating, inciting, incorporating, incriminating, incubating, indicating, indicting, infatuating, infecting, infighting, infiltrating, inflating, inflicting, infuriating, ingratiating, inhabiting, inheriting, inhibiting, initiating, injecting, innovating, inserting, insinuating, inspecting, instigating, instituting, instructing, insulating, insulting, integrating, interacting, intercepting, interdicting, interpreting, interrogating, interrupting, intersecting, intimidating, intoxicating, inundating, invalidating, inventing, investigating, invigorating, inviting, irritating, isolating, jetting, jolting, jutting, kiting, knitting, lactating, lamenting, laminating, legislating, letting, levitating, liberating, lifting, lighting, limiting, liquidating, litigating, locating, looting, lubricating, malting, mandating, manipulating, marketing, marting, masturbating, mating, matting, mediating, meditating, meeting, melting, migrating, minting, misappropriating, misinterpreting, misrepresenting, misstating, mistreating, mitigating, moderating, molting, moonlighting, motivating, mounting, mutating, mutilating, muting, nauseating, navigating, necessitating, negating, neglecting, negotiating, netting, nitrating, nominating, nonbiting, nonoperating, nonsporting, nonvoting, noting, Nutting, objecting, obliterating, obstructing, obviating, officiating, offsetting, omitting, operating, opting, orbiting, orchestrating, originating, oscillating, Outfitting, outing, outwitting, overeating, overestimating, overheating, overreacting, overshooting, overstating, painting, panting, parachuting, parenting, participating, parting, patenting, patting, penetrating, percolating, perfecting, permeating, permitting, perpetrating, perpetuating, persecuting, perverting, petting, picketing, piloting, pinpointing, pirating, pitting, placating, planting, plating, plotting, plummeting, pocketing, pointing, polluting, pontificating, populating, porting, pouting, precipitating, predicting, predominating, preempting, presenting, preventing, printing, procrastinating, profiting, prognosticating, prohibiting, projecting, proliferating, promoting, prompting, promulgating, propagating, prosecuting, prospecting, protecting, pulsating, purporting, putting, quieting, quilting, quitting, quoting, radiating, rafting, ranting, ratcheting, rating, reacting, reactivating, reallocating, reasserting, rebutting, recalculating, recanting, reciprocating, reciting, recollecting, reconnecting, reconstituting, reconstructing, recounting, recreating, recruiting, recuperating, redacting, redecorating, redirecting, redistributing, redistricting, reelecting, reevaluating, refitting, reflecting, refuting, regenerating, regretting, regulating, rehabilitating, reigniting, reincorporating, reinstating, reinstituting, reinterpreting, reinventing, reinvigorating, reiterating, rejecting, rejuvenating, relating, relegating, relenting, relocating, remarketing, renegotiating, renovating, renting, repainting, repatriating, repeating, replanting, replicating, reporting, representing, reprinting, repudiating, rerouting, resenting, resonating, resorting, respecting, restarting, restating, restricting, resubmitting, resulting, resurrecting, resuscitating, retaliating, retracting, retreating, retrofitting, reuniting, reverberating, reverting, revisiting, revolting, rewriting, rioting, riveting, rocketing, rooting, rotating, rotting, salivating, salting, saluting, saturating, scapegoating, scouting, sculpting, seating, sedating, segregating, selecting, separating, setting, shafting, sheeting, shifting, shooting, shoplifting, shorting, shouting, shunting, shutting, sifting, sighting, simulating, siting, sitting, skating, skirting, skyrocketing, skywriting, slanting, slighting, slitting, slotting, smarting, smelting, snorting, soliciting, somersaulting, songwriting, sorting, speculating, spitting, splitting, sporting, spotlighting, spotting, spouting, sprinting, sprouting, spurting, squatting, squinting, squirting, stagnating, starting, stating, stimulating, stipulating, strutting, subcontracting, subjecting, submitting, subordinating, substituting, subtracting, subverting, suffocating, superconducting, supplanting, supplementing, supporting, surmounting, suspecting, sweating, Sweeting, syndicating, tabulating, tainting, targeting, taunting, telecommuting, telemarketing, tempting, tenting, terminating, thermosetting, thwarting, ticketing, tilting, titillating, tolerating, tormenting, toting, touting, translating, transmitting, transplanting, transporting, treating, trotting, trumpeting, typesetting, Typewriting, undercutting, underestimating, underreporting, understating, underwriting, undulating, unexciting, uninviting, uniting, unrelenting, unremitting, unseating, unstinting, unsuspecting, unwitting, updating, uplifting, uprooting, upsetting, urinating, vacating, vacillating, validating, vaulting, ventilating, venting, vetting, vibrating, violating, visiting, vomiting, voting, wafting, waiting, wanting, weighting, weightlifting, wetting, whiting, wildcatting, wilting, witting, writing, yachting. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-e-g-i-i-n-n-r-s-t-t" | |
-1 letter: eternising. | |
-2 letters: enteritis, inserting, insetting, internist, interties, intestine, reignites, renesting, resenting, resetting, resitting, retesting, retinites, retinting, sintering, stringent, tentering. | |
-3 letters: einstein, entering, entities, gentries, ginniest, gitterns, grisette, igniters, insetter, integers, intenser, interest, internes, intertie, nettings, nineties, niteries, nitrites, reesting, reignite, renitent, resining, resiting, retinite, sentient, sneering, steering, sternite, stingier, stinting, tergites, tinniest, tintings. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-e-g-i-i-n-n-r-s-t-t" | |
+1 letter: intersecting. | |
+2 letters: interestingly, uninteresting. | |
+3 letters: disinteresting, predestinating, regimentations, reintegrations, renegotiations. | |
+4 letters: antisegregation, interestingness, misinterpreting, nonintersecting, redintegrations, reinvestigating, reinvestigation, underestimating. | |
+5 letters: intergenerations, reinvestigations, superintelligent. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Modern 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Images: Slideshow 6. Images: Photo Album 7. Images: Digital Art 8. Quotations: Familiar | 9. Quotations: Historic 10. Quotations: Fiction 11. Quotations: Non-fiction 12. Quotations: Spoken | 13. Quotations: Speeches 14. Usage Frequency 15. Expressions 16. Expressions: Internet | 17. Translations: Modern 18. Derivations 19. Rhymes 20. Anagrams | 21. Bibliography |
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