Word Meanings - DIVERTING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Amusing; entertaining. -- Di*vert"ing*ly, adv. -- Di*vert"ing*ness, n.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of DIVERTING)

• Funny
• Sportive
• droll
• comical
• laughable
• humorous
• jocose
• ridiculous
• ludicrous
• diverting

Related words: (words related to DIVERTING)

• COMICAL
  1. Relating to comedy. They deny it to be tragical because its catastrphe is a wedding, which hath ever been accounted comical. Gay. 2. Exciting mirth; droll; laughable; as, a comical story. "Comical adventures." Dryden. Syn. -- Humorous;
• DROLLIST
  A droll. Glanvill.
• JOCOSE
  Given to jokes and jesting; containing a joke, or abounding in jokes; merry; sportive; humorous. To quit their austerity and be jocose and pleasant with an adversary. Shaftesbury. All . . . jocose or comical airs should be excluded. I. Watts. Syn.
• DROLLISH
  Somewhat droll. Sterne.
• LAUGHABLE
  Fitted to excite laughter; as, a laughable story; a laughable scene. Syn. -- Droll; ludicrous; mirthful; comical. See Droll, and Ludicrous. -- Laugh"a*ble*ness, n. -- Laugh"a*bly, adv.
• HUMOROUSLY
  1. Capriciously; whimsically. We resolve rashly, sillily, or humorously. Calamy. 2. Facetiously; wittily.
• DIVERTING
  Amusing; entertaining. -- Di*vert"ing*ly, adv. -- Di*vert"ing*ness, n.
• 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.
• DIVERTISSEMENT
  A short ballet, or other entertainment, between the acts of a play. Smart.
• DIVERTIMENTO
  ) A light and pleasing composition.
• COMICALITY
  The quality of being comical; something comical.
• RIDICULOUS
  1. Fitted to excite ridicule; absurd and laughable; unworthy of serious consideration; as, a ridiculous dress or behavior. Agricola, discerning that those little targets and unwieldy glaives ill pointed would soon become ridiculous against the
• DIVERTISE
  To divert; to entertain. Dryden.
• DIVERTICLE
  A diverticulum. (more info) 1. A turning; a byway; a bypath. Hales.
• DIVERTIVE
  Tending to divert; diverting; amusing; interesting. Things of a pleasant and divertive nature. Rogers.
• LUDICROUS
  Adapted to excite laughter, without scorn or contempt; sportive. Broome. A chapter upon German rhetoric would be in the same ludicrous predicament as Van Troil's chapter on the snakes of Iceland, which delivers its business in one summary sentence,
• DIVERTIBLE
  Capable of being diverted.
• DROLLER
  A jester; a droll. Glanvill.
• FUNNY
  Droll; comical; amusing; laughable. Funny bone. See crazy bone, under Crazy.
• DIVERTISEMENT
  Diversion; amusement; recreation.
• INDIVERTIBLE
  Not to be diverted or turned aside. Lamb.
• DROLL
  Queer, and fitted to provoke laughter; ludicrous from oddity; amusing and strange. Syn. -- Comic; comical; farcical; diverting; humorous; ridiculous; queer; odd; waggish; facetious; merry; laughable; ludicrous. -- Droll, Laughable, Comical.
• DIVERT
  turn aside; di- = dis- + vertere to turn. See Verse, and cf. 1. To turn aside; to turn off from any course or intended application; to deflect; as, to divert a river from its channel; to divert commerce from its usual course. That crude apple that
• GEROCOMICAL
  Pertaining to gerocomy. Dr. John Smith.