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DIVERTED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Pleasantly occupied
Example:
We are not amused
Synonyms:
amused; diverted; entertained
Classified under:
Similar:
pleased (experiencing or manifesting pleasure)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb divert
Context examples:
Then a change in their position diverted him.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
The lobster was instantly surrounded by a halo of pleasing reminiscences, and curiosity about 'the charming young ladies' diverted his mind from the comical mishap.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
“Oh!” cried Elizabeth, “I am excessively diverted. But it is so strange!”
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
Lady Middleton frequently called him to order, wondered how any one's attention could be diverted from music for a moment, and asked Marianne to sing a particular song which Marianne had just finished.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
Some of my comrades groaned, and my own mind began to grow watchful with anxious thoughts, when a strange sight suddenly attracted our attention and diverted our solicitude from our own situation.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
She talked away all the time the man clipped, and diverted my mind nicely.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
The natural course of his life had been diverted, and, recoiling from his kind, he had clung to the human.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
Soon after this Miss Bates came in, and Emma could not help being diverted by the perplexity of her first answer to herself, resulting, she supposed, from doubt of what might be said, and impatience to say every thing.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
Among the rest, I was much diverted with a little old treatise, which always lay in Glumdalclitch’s bed chamber, and belonged to her governess, a grave elderly gentlewoman, who dealt in writings of morality and devotion.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
When I think of him, with his impenetrably wise face, walking up and down with the Doctor, delighted to be battered by the hard words in the Dictionary; when I think of him carrying huge watering-pots after Annie; kneeling down, in very paws of gloves, at patient microscopic work among the little leaves; expressing as no philosopher could have expressed, in everything he did, a delicate desire to be her friend; showering sympathy, trustfulness, and affection, out of every hole in the watering-pot; when I think of him never wandering in that better mind of his to which unhappiness addressed itself, never bringing the unfortunate King Charles into the garden, never wavering in his grateful service, never diverted from his knowledge that there was something wrong, or from his wish to set it right—I really feel almost ashamed of having known that he was not quite in his wits, taking account of the utmost I have done with mine.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
