Word Meanings - DIVERSION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The act of drawing the attention and force of an enemy from the point where the principal attack is to be made; the attack, alarm, or feint which diverts. Syn. -- Amusement; entertainment; pastime; recreation; sport; game; play; solace; merriment.

Additional info about word: DIVERSION

The act of drawing the attention and force of an enemy from the point where the principal attack is to be made; the attack, alarm, or feint which diverts. Syn. -- Amusement; entertainment; pastime; recreation; sport; game; play; solace; merriment. (more info) 1. The act of turning aside from any course, occupation, or object; as, the diversion of a stream from its channel; diversion of the mind from business. 2. That which diverts; that which turns or draws the mind from care or study, and thus relaxes and amuses; sport; play; pastime; as, the diversions of youth. "Public diversions." V. Knox. Such productions of wit and humor as expose vice and folly, furnish useful diversion to readers. Addison.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of DIVERSION)

• Divarication
• Deviation
• divergence
• digression
• diversion
• Game
• Sport
• recreation
• pastime
• amusement
• frolic
• play
• Pastime
• Recreation
• entertainment
• sport
• Refreshment
• cheer
• reanimation
• revival
• holiday
• relaxation
• Play
• wantonness
• joke
• merriment
• gaiety
• fun
• game

Related words: (words related to DIVERSION)

• FROLICKY
  Frolicsome. Richardson.
• CHEERINESS
  The state of being cheery.
• REANIMATION
  The act or operation of reanimating, or the state of being reanimated; reinvigoration; revival.
• PASTIME
  That which amuses, and serves to make time pass agreeably; sport; amusement; diversion.
• CHEERISNESS
  Cheerfulness. There is no Christian duty that is not to be seasoned and set off with cheerishness. Milton.
• WANTONNESS
  The quality or state of being wanton; negligence of restraint; sportiveness; recklessness; lasciviousness. Gower. The tumults threatened to abuse all acts of grace, and turn them into wantonness. Eikon Basilike. Young gentlemen would be as sad as
• CHEERINGLY
  In a manner to cheer or encourage.
• SPORTLESS
  Without sport or mirth; joyless.
• REVIVALISM
  The spirit of religious revivals; the methods of revivalists.
• CHEERER
  One who cheers; one who, or that which, gladdens. "Thou cheerer of our days." Wotton. "Prime cheerer, light." Thomson.
• SPORTING
  Of pertaining to, or engaging in, sport or sporrts; exhibiting the character or conduct of one who, or that which, sports. Sporting book, a book containing a record of bets, gambling operations, and the like. C. Kingsley. -- Sporting house, a house
• SPORTIVE
  Tending to, engaged in, or provocate of, sport; gay; froliscome; playful; merry. Is it I That drive thee from the sportive court Shak. -- Sport"ive*ly, adv. -- Sport"ive*ness, n.
• REFRESHMENT
  1. The act of refreshing, or the state of being refreshed; restoration of strength, spirit, vigor, or liveliness; relief after suffering; new life or animation after depression. 2. That which refreshes; means of restoration or reanimation;
• RECREATION
  The act of recreating, or the state of being recreated; refreshment of the strength and spirits after toil; amusement; diversion; sport; pastime.
• SPORTAL
  Of or pertaining to sports; used in sports. "Sportal arms." Dryden.
• DIGRESSIONAL
  Pertaining to, or having the character of, a digression; departing from the main purpose or subject. T. Warton.
• CHEER
  chère, fr. LL. cara face, Gr. , L. cerebrum brain, G. hirn, and E. 1. The face; the countenance or its expression. "Sweat of thy cheer." Wyclif. 2. Feeling; spirit; state of mind or heart. Be of good cheer. Matt. ix. 2. The parents . . . fled
• CHEERFULNESS
  Good spirits; a state of moderate joy or gayety; alacrity.
• REVIVAL
  The act of reviving, or the state of being revived. Specifically: Renewed attention to something, as to letters or literature. Renewed performance of, or interest in, something, as the drama and literature. Renewed interest in religion,
• SPORTFUL
  1. Full of sport; merry; frolicsome; full of jesting; indulging in mirth or play; playful; wanton; as, a sportful companion. Down he alights among the sportful herd. Milton. 2. Done in jest, or for mere play; sportive. They are no sportful
• UPCHEER
  To cheer up. Spenser.
• DISPORT
  Play; sport; pastime; diversion; playfulness. Milton.
• MISTRANSPORT
  To carry away or mislead wrongfully, as by passion. Bp. Hall.
• TRANSPORTING
  That transports; fig., ravishing. Your transporting chords ring out. Keble.
• TRANSPORTAL
  Transportation; the act of removing from one locality to another. "The transportal of seeds in the wool or fur of quadrupeds." Darwin.
• TRANSPORTABILITY
  The quality or state of being transportable.
• TRANSPORTED
  Conveyed from one place to another; figuratively, carried away with passion or pleasure; entranced. -- Trans*port"ed*ly, adv. -- Trans*port"ed*ness, n.
• DISPORTMENT
  Act of disporting; diversion; play. Dr. H. More.
• TRANSPORT
  1. To carry or bear from one place to another; to remove; to convey; as, to transport goods; to transport troops. Hakluyt. 2. To carry, or cause to be carried, into banishment, as a criminal; to banish. 3. To carry away with vehement emotion, as