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Definition: Entertaining |
EntertainingAdjective1. Agreeably diverting or amusing; "an entertaining puppet show"; "films should be entertaining". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "entertaining" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references) |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Entertainment: Any means of distraction from the fact that we're all going to die.Some forms of entertainment:
See also Game, Geisha, Entertainment basic topics
- Television
- Movies
- Animation
- Anime
- Theatre
- Dance
- Sports
- Radio
- Chat
- Eating Out
- Drinking
- New Media
- Music
- Disco
- J-POP (Japanese popular music)
- Show business
- Sex business
- Shooting
- Celebrities
- Humor
- Clowns
- Comedy and Comedians
- Internet humor
- Magic
- Circus
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Entertainment."
| Antonym: unentertaining (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Amusement | Adjective: amusing, entertaining, diverting; Verb: recreational, recreative, lusory; pleasant; (pleasing); laughable; (ludicrous); witty; fun, festive, festal; jovial, jolly, jocund, roguish, rompish; playful, playful as a kitten; sportive, ludibrious. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Entertaining |
| English words defined with "entertaining": amuse, amusing, amusingly, amusive ♦ delicious, delightful, dimly, disport, divert, diverting, divertingly ♦ entertainingly ♦ fun ♦ hospitableness ♦ palely, pallidly ♦ rec room, reception room, recreation room ♦ unentertaining, unputdownable. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "entertaining": Afternoon, Attic ♦ Canary Birds ♦ Doomsday ♦ Ever ♦ Malice ♦ Never ♦ Real Programmers Don't Use Pascal ♦ Saffron ♦ Traveling ♦ Verdant Green ♦ Yacht. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "entertaining": Entertain. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Outside it may be raining, but in here it's entertaining! (Moulin Rouge!; writing credit: Baz Luhrmann; Craig Pearce) We hope you found it entertaining, whimsical, and yet relevant, with an underlined revisionist conceit that belie the film's emotional attachments to the subject matter (Wayne's World; writing credit: Mike Myers, Bonnie Turner, Terry Turner) Shy may not be glamorous or entertaining. She's just a normal teacher who's always there (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge) I'm entertaining you now, aren't I (Quills; writing credit: Doug Wright) I've been downstairs for an hour entertaining some kid from Pig's Knuckle, Arkansas (Animal House; writing credit: Harold Ramis; Douglas Kenney) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Entertaining Mr. Sloane (1970) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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 | Base Hospital No. 1. Vichy, France. : Court yard showing band entertaining patients. Hotel Carlton. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | U. S. Army Base Hospital Number 17, Dijon, France. : Group of wounded soldiers entertaining themselves. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
 | U.S. American National Red Cross Hospital No. 9, Paris, France. : The 469th Infantry Band, which played jazz music, entertaining the patients. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | Moored in the Canal della Guidecca, during a visit to Venice, Italy, on 23 August 1951. Salem was then flagship of the Sixth Fleet. Note decorated awning rigged forward, probably for entertaining visiting dignitaries. Credit: NAVY. |
 | Entertaining royalty. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Jack, you used to be so entertaining and brilliant before we were married. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Red Dust Players entertaining at meeting of UCAPAWA (United Cannery, Agricultural, Packing, and Allied Workers of America) in Bristow, Oklahoma. These players are a group of young people in Oklahoma City who are interested in union activities and are curr. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Niagara Falls, New York. Entertaining guest playing Chinese checkers on Nan Hannegan's birthday at Mrs. Hannegan's boardinghouse for war workers. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | East Montpelier, Vermont. Charles Ormsbee's widowed mother, Mrs. Myrtle Ormsbee, knitting sweaters for the Red Cross, and entertaining her grandson of five at the same time. Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
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| "Male 5" by Jillian Balfour Commentary: "Male: A man or boy. (my friend, entertaining himself at a fast food restaurant.)." | "BS 03" by Lucien Aréstegüi Commentary: "BIO STUCTURE 03 Just wondering the streets after watching Daredevil (Disappointing). This was more entertaining than the movie to me." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. | |
| Author | Quotation |
John Locke | One unerring mark of the love of truth is not entertaining any proposition with greater assurance than the proofs it is built upon will warrant. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson | Cities force growth and make people talkative and entertaining, but they also make them artificial. |
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Emma | Austen, Jane | But sometimes of an evening, before we went to cards, he would read something aloud out of the Elegant Extracts, very entertaining. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Business | People dine at these restaurants not only for the food, but also for an environment that provides an entertaining break from their usual surroundings. (references) | |
Economic History | Turkey | The United Sates and the GOT signed an "open skies" aviation agreement in May 2000, with the Council of Ministers approving the agreement on July 18, 2001. Currently the GOT is not entertaining USG proposals to add seventh freedom rights for cargo operations. (references) |
Political Economy | BAHRAIN | In 2001, the Government of Bahrain began entertaining the idea of allowing the formation of trade unions. (references) |
Travel | Denmark | Business entertaining is usually done at lunch, and more rarely at dinner in a restaurant. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
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Liza Minnelli | Now, having had this experience, I can't say really what they were looking for. I don't know their minds. But every time I see a reality show, it seems that the most entertaining parts on other reality shows are when they make their guests look foolish. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "Entertaining" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 67.43% of the time. "Entertaining" is used about 564 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 |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 67.43% | 381 | 14,421 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 24.07% | 136 | 27,260 |
| Noun (singular) | 5.49% | 31 | 62,296 |
| Noun (proper) | 2.65% | 15 | 90,616 |
| Noun (common) | 0.35% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 564 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "entertaining": do a lot of entertaining. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "entertaining": entertaining-cum-educational. | |
Ending with "entertaining": all-entertaining. | |
| 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 "entertaining"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | amusant (amusing, funny). (various references) | |
Albanian | zbavitës (amusing, diverting, escapist, full of beans, funny, light), interesant (curiously, enthralling, good looking, interesting, interestingly, juicy, living, nutty, picturesque, sapid), i këndshëm (agreeable, beauteous, beautiful, delectable, delicious, dreamy, dulcet, funny, good, good humoured, good tempered, good-humored, goodly, graceful, gracious, grateful, handsome, jocose, jocund, jolly, likable, likeable, lovely, nice, palatable, piquant, pleasant, pretty, Savory, savoury, smooth, soft, sweet, sympathetic), dëfryes (amusing, frolicsome). (various references) | |
Arabic | ممتع (delightful, engaging, enjoyable, fine, good, gratifying, interesting, lovely, pleasant, pleasing, pleasurable, refreshing, sapid, sightly, what fun), مسلي (amusement, amusing, beguiler, diverting, pleasant, refreshing, sidesplitting), مسل (amusing, comforting, consolatory, funny, sportive). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | занимателен (amusing, interesting, recreational, recreative, sportful), забавен (amusing, comic, comical, delayed, diverting, funny, interesting, laughable, merry, recreational, recreative, sportful). (various references) | |
Chinese | 招待 (Entertain, Entertained). (various references) | |
Czech | zábavný (amusing, delectable, humorous, light, pleasant, sporting), kratochvilný (time-killing). (various references) | |
Danish | morsom (amusing, funny). (various references) | |
Dutch | leuk (amusing, fine, fun, funny, glad, nice), amusant (amusing, funny). (various references) | |
Esperanto | amuza (amusing, funny). (various references) | |
Finnish | huvittava (amusing). (various references) | |
French | amusant (enjoyable). (various references) | |
Frisian | fermaaklik (amusing, funny). (various references) | |
German | unterhaltend (amusing, diverting, funny, subsistent), unterhaltsam (amusing, chatty, enjoyable, funny, sportful), amüsant (amusing, amusingly, enchanting, exhilarating, funny). (various references) | |
Greek | διασκεδαστικόσ (amusing, humorous, killing, recreative), διασκεδαστικός (enjoyable). (various references) | |
Hebrew | משעשע (amusing, comic, comical, funny), בדורי. (various references) | |
Hungarian | szórakoztató (amusing, cabaret, diverting, entertainer, funny, rich). (various references) | |
Indonesian | menyenangkan (agreeable, amusing, comfortable, congenial, cozy, enjoyable, fine, groovy, pleasant), dapat menghibur. (various references) | |
Italian | divertente (amusing, droll, enjoyable, funny, hilarious, humorous). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 包蔵 (comprehending, containing, keeping), 抱懐 (cherishing, harboring). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ほうぞう (comprehending, containing, keeping, treasure house, treasury), ほうかい (breaking down, caving in, cherishing, collapse, crumbling, decay, harboring). (various references) | |
Korean | 대접. (various references) | |
Manx | taitnyssagh (acceptable, amiable, amusing, appealing, charmed, congenial, delectable, delightful, enchanting, endearing, enjoyable, grateful, likeable, nice, pleasant, pleasing, pleasurable, prepossessing, scrumptious), oltaghey (bless, bless as food, entertain, entertainment, grace, grace before food, hospitality, receive, reception, refresh, regale, salutation, salute, treat, welcome). (various references) | |
Papiamen | dibertido (amusing, funny), chistoso (amusing, funny), chaskero (amusing, funny). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | entertainingay.(various references) | |
Polish | zabawny (amusing, funny). (various references) | |
Portuguese | interessante (interesting, juicy, newsworthy, sapid), divertido (amused, amusing, canty, diverting, droll, enjoyable, frolicsome, funny, gamy, gay, hilarious, jolly, larksome, laughable, merry, mirthful, playful, screaming, sportful, sportive, waggish), alegre (alive, blithe, blithesome, bonny, boon, breezy, brisk, buoyant, buxom, canty, cheerful, cheery, chirpy, coltish, convivial, corky, diverting, exhilarated, festal, festive, frolicsome, gamesome, gay, glad, gladsome, gleeful, happy, hilarious, holiday, jaunty, jocular, jocund, jolly, jovial, joyful, joyous, jubilant, larksome, laughing, light, light-hearted, lightsome, lively, merry, mirthful, peart, resilient, slaphappy, sportful, sportive, sprightly, tipsy, vivid, volatile, winsome), agradável (agreeable, amiable, comely, congenial, cushy, delectable, delightful, easy, enjoyable, fine, genial, gladsome, glorious, good-humored, good-humoured, goodly, good-natured, kindly, lovely, merry, music, musical, neat, nice, nutty, pleasant, pleasing, pleasurable, prepossessing, pretty, racy, restful, snug, sober-blooded, soft, songful, stunner, suave, taking, welcome, well-done, well-natured). (various references) | |
Romanian | ospãtare (food), hazliu (amusing, comic, droll, funny, gamesome, humorous, laughable, waggish), distractiv (amusing, diverting, funny, jocular), amuzant (amusing, as good as a play, diverting, droll, funny, jocular, laughable, light, quaint). (various references) | |
Russian | занимательный (amusing, diverting), забавный (a lot of fun, amusing, comical, droll, funny, humorous, jocund, jokey, sportful). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | zabavan (amusing, comical, diverting, droll, recreative, sportful, sportive). (various references) | |
Spanish | entretenido (amused, amusing, kept), divertido (amused, amusing, comic, comical, distrait, diverting, droll, enchanting, enjoyable, funny, jolly, merry), cómico (amusing, comedian, comic, comical, funny, humorous, laughable, player, zany). (various references) | |
Sranan | prisiri (amusing, fun, funny, pleasure). (various references) | |
Swedish | underhållande (maintenance). (various references) | |
Thai | ซึ่งสนุกสนานเพลิดเพลิน. (various references) | |
Turkish | eğlendirici (diverting, fun, funny, hilarious, recreative), eğlenceli (amusing, enjoyable, fun, lively, rollicking, saturnalian, sociable, upbeat). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | розважальний (diverting, recreative, sportful, sportive), цікавий (amusing, curious, interesting, newsworthy, nosey, nosy, nutty, pry, visitable). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | vui thú (lovely), thú vị (delectable, diverting, enjoyable, merry, nicely, pleasant, pleasing, pleasurable, pretty, rorty), giải trí (diverting, recreative). (various references) | |
Welsh | adloniadol (of entertainment). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "entertaining": entertainingly. (additional references) | |
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"Entertaining" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: enertaining, enetertaining. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "entertaining" (pronounced e'ntertā"ning or e'nertā"ning) |
| 6 | -er t ā" n i ng | ascertaining, pertaining. |
| 5 | -t ā" n i ng | abstaining, attaining, containing, detaining, maintaining, obtaining, retaining, staining, sustaining. |
| 4 | -ā" n i ng | campaigning, caning, chaining, complaining, constraining, disdaining, draining, explaining, feigning, gaining, ordaining, overtraining, raining, refraining, regaining, reigning, reining, remaining, restraining, retraining, straining, training, waning. |
| 3 | -n i ng | apportioning, abandoning, adjoining, adjourning, aligning, assigning, auctioning, auditioning, awakening, awning, ballooning, banning, bargaining, battening, beckoning, beginning, bemoaning, binning, blackening, bludgeoning, boning, branning, brightening, brining, broadening, Browning, burdening, burgeoning, burning, Canning, captioning, careening, cartooning, cautioning, championing, chaperoning, cheapening, christening, churning, cleaning, cloning, clowning, coarsening, cocooning, coining, combining, commissioning, concerning, conditioning, condoning, confining, conning, convening, Corning, couponing, crooning, crowning, cunning, cushioning, dampening, darkening, dawning, deadening, deafening, declining, decommissioning, deepening, defining, demeaning, Denning, designing, determining, dining, Dinning, discerning, disciplining, disheartening, disillusioning, divining, donning, Downing, droning, drowning, Dunning, Durning, earning, enjoining, enlightening, envisioning, evening, examining, fanning, fashioning, fastening, fattening, fawning, fining, finning, flattening, freshening, frightening, frowning, functioning, gardening, ginning, glistening, governing, greening, grinning, groaning, gunning, happening, hardening, hastening, headlining, heartening, heightening, honing, Horning, housecleaning, imagining, imprisoning, impugning, inning, intertwining, intervening, intoning, ironing, jawboning, jettisoning, joining, Kenning, leaning, learning, leavening, lengthening, lessening, lightening, lightning, likening, lining, listening, loaning, loosening, machining, maddening, malfunctioning, Manning, margining, meaning, mentioning, midmorning, mining, moaning, morning, motioning, mourning, opening, opining, orphaning, outlining, overrunning, overturning, owning, panning, pardoning, partitioning, penning, petitioning, phoning, pining, pinning, planning, poisoning, positioning, postponing, preening, preplanning, provisioning, pruning, quarantining, questioning, quickening, rationing, realigning, reasoning, reassigning, reawakening, reckoning, reclining, reconditioning, redefining, redesigning, redlining, reexamining, refining, rejoining, relearning, reopening, repositioning, rerunning, resigning, returning, rezoning, ripening, ruining, running, saddening, sanctioning, scanning, screening, seasoning, sectioning, sharpening, shining, shortening, shunning, sickening, signing, sinning, siphoning, slackening, softening, spanning, spawning, spinning, spurning, stationing, stiffening, stoning, straightening, streamlining, strengthening, stunning, summoning, sunning, sweetening, swooning, tanning, telephoning, thickening, thinning, threatening, tightening, toning, toughening, tuning, turning, twining, underlining, undermining, underpinning, unquestioning, unreasoning, vacationing, Vining, warning, weakening, weaning, whining, whitening, widening, wining, winning, worsening, yawning, yearning, zoning. |
| 6 | -er t ā" n i ng | ascertaining, pertaining. |
| 5 | -t ā" n i ng | abstaining, attaining, containing, detaining, maintaining, obtaining, retaining, staining, sustaining. |
| 4 | -ā" n i ng | campaigning, caning, chaining, complaining, constraining, disdaining, draining, explaining, feigning, gaining, ordaining, overtraining, raining, refraining, regaining, reigning, reining, remaining, restraining, retraining, straining, training, waning. |
| 3 | -n i ng | apportioning, abandoning, adjoining, adjourning, aligning, assigning, auctioning, auditioning, awakening, awning, ballooning, banning, bargaining, battening, beckoning, beginning, bemoaning, binning, blackening, bludgeoning, boning, branning, brightening, brining, broadening, Browning, burdening, burgeoning, burning, Canning, captioning, careening, cartooning, cautioning, championing, chaperoning, cheapening, christening, churning, cleaning, cloning, clowning, coarsening, cocooning, coining, combining, commissioning, concerning, conditioning, condoning, confining, conning, convening, Corning, couponing, crooning, crowning, cunning, cushioning, dampening, darkening, dawning, deadening, deafening, declining, decommissioning, deepening, defining, demeaning, Denning, designing, determining, dining, Dinning, discerning, disciplining, disheartening, disillusioning, divining, donning, Downing, droning, drowning, Dunning, Durning, earning, enjoining, enlightening, envisioning, evening, examining, fanning, fashioning, fastening, fattening, fawning, fining, finning, flattening, freshening, frightening, frowning, functioning, gardening, ginning, glistening, governing, greening, grinning, groaning, gunning, happening, hardening, hastening, headlining, heartening, heightening, honing, Horning, housecleaning, imagining, imprisoning, impugning, inning, intertwining, intervening, intoning, ironing, jawboning, jettisoning, joining, Kenning, leaning, learning, leavening, lengthening, lessening, lightening, lightning, likening, lining, listening, loaning, loosening, machining, maddening, malfunctioning, Manning, margining, meaning, mentioning, midmorning, mining, moaning, morning, motioning, mourning, opening, opining, orphaning, outlining, overrunning, overturning, owning, panning, pardoning, partitioning, penning, petitioning, phoning, pining, pinning, planning, poisoning, positioning, postponing, preening, preplanning, provisioning, pruning, quarantining, questioning, quickening, rationing, realigning, reasoning, reassigning, reawakening, reckoning, reclining, reconditioning, redefining, redesigning, redlining, reexamining, refining, rejoining, relearning, reopening, repositioning, rerunning, resigning, returning, rezoning, ripening, ruining, running, saddening, sanctioning, scanning, screening, seasoning, sectioning, sharpening, shining, shortening, shunning, sickening, signing, sinning, siphoning, slackening, softening, spanning, spawning, spinning, spurning, stationing, stiffening, stoning, straightening, streamlining, strengthening, stunning, summoning, sunning, sweetening, swooning, tanning, telephoning, thickening, thinning, threatening, tightening, toning, toughening, tuning, turning, twining, underlining, undermining, underpinning, unquestioning, unreasoning, vacationing, Vining, warning, weakening, weaning, whining, whitening, widening, wining, winning, worsening, yawning, yearning, zoning. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: intenerating. | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-e-g-i-i-n-n-n-r-t-t" | |
-2 letters: entraining, entreating, intreating. | |
-3 letters: argentine, argentite, entertain, integrate, interning, intrigant, iterating, itinerant, itinerate, nattering, neatening, nitrating, rattening, retaining, retinting, tangerine, tenanting, tentering. | |
-4 letters: aigrette, antigene, arginine, attiring, entering, gnattier, gratinee, inertiae, interage, intertie, intranet, reignite, renitent, retinite, tainting, training, treating, triennia. | |
-5 letters: aginner, airting, anteing, antigen, arenite, ariette, earning, engrain, entrain, entrant, entreat, gentian. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-e-g-i-i-n-n-n-r-t-t" | |
+2 letters: entertainingly. | |
+3 letters: intergeneration. | |
+4 letters: intergenerations, interpenetrating. | |
+5 letters: intergenerational. | |
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