Lexic.us

Definition of Entertaining

1. Adjective. Agreeably diverting. "Films should be entertaining"

Definition of Entertaining

1. a. Affording entertainment; pleasing; amusing; diverting.

Definition of Entertaining

1. Adjective. Very amusing; that entertains. ¹

2. Verb. (present participle of entertain) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Entertaining

1. entertain [v] - See also: entertain

Lexicographical Neighbors of Entertaining

Literary usage of Entertaining

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The North American Review by Making of America Project, Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge (1830)
"(the Library of Entertaining Knowledge) is got up, on purpose to correct the ... The title 'Entertaining' we were in truth afraid of, from the first ..."

2. The Bookman (1903)
"We recall two short and entertaining magazine serials purporting to have been written by one who signed himself facetiously "Quatre Étoiles. ..."

3. The Bibliographer's Manual of English Literature: Containing an Account of by William Thomas Lowndes (1864)
"One of the moat entertaining books in — Memoirs of British Quadru- geds. ... An entertaining collection of anecdotes (not lives) relating to most of the ..."

4. The Monthly Review by Ralph Griffiths (1831)
"The Library of Entertaining Knowledge. Pompeii. Vol. I. Published by the Society, for the Diffusion of Useful Kowledge. London : C. Knight, 1831. ..."

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