amusing

[A*musĀ·ing]

The adjective amusing describes someone or something that makes you laugh. Something that you find amusing, like your favorite stand up comic, might be less amusing to your easily offended grandmother.

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Giving amusement; diverting; as, an amusing story.

Adjective S.
arousing or provoking laughter; "an amusing film with a steady stream of pranks and pratfalls"; "an amusing fellow"; "a comic hat"; "a comical look of surprise"; "funny stories that made everybody laugh"; "a very funny writer"; "it would have been laughab

Adjective S.
providing enjoyment; pleasantly entertaining; "an amusing speaker"; "a diverting story"; "a fun thing to do"


p. pr. & vb. n.
of Amuse

a.
Giving amusement; diverting; as, an amusing story.


Amusing

A*mus"ing , a. Giving amusement; diverting; as, an amusing story. -- A*mus"ing*ly, adv.

Giving amusement; diverting; as, an amusing story.

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Usage Examples

The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.

Nothing is so perfectly amusing as a total change of ideas.

Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one to whom the torture and death of his fellow creatures is amusing in itself.

I was the youngest of my entire family so you are tap-dancing to try to get the attention of your older cousins. I really hit my social stride in 6th grade, but before that I was a pretty big dork. You learn how to be amusing and how to work for it.

As I get older, all sorts of things become less funny. Once one has children, any cruelty involving children becomes far less amusing than when one was at the mercy of one's friends' and relatives' children.

I tend to head for what's amusing because a lot of things aren't happy. But usually you can find a funny side to practically anything.

Funny things tend not to happen to me. I am not a natural comic. I need to think about things a lot before I can be even remotely amusing.

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Other Usage Examples

I love funny people, and when I'm with funny people, or people who are amusing in their weirdness, I love it. Because that to me is funny, as opposed to someone who stops and says, 'Hey let me tell you a joke.'

Working with Chaplin was very amusing and strange. His films are so funny, but working with him, I found him to be a very serious man. Whereas the films of Hitchcock are macabre, he could be a very funny man to work with, always telling jokes and holding court. Of course, when I worked with Charlie he was getting older.

Love is more pleasant than marriage for the same reason that novels are more amusing than history.

However my parents - both of whom came from impoverished backgrounds and neither of whom had been to college, took the view that my overactive imagination was an amusing quirk that would never pay a mortgage or secure a pension.

The duty of comedy is to correct men by amusing them.

I find it amusing on one level, poignant on another, when people try to get recognition from an outside source. It's sad.

Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself.

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