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DIVERTING
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Providing enjoyment; pleasantly entertaining
Example:
a diverting story
Synonyms:
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Similar:
interesting (arousing or holding the attention)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
-ing form of the verb divert
Context examples:
Two days after this adventure, the emperor, having ordered that part of his army which quarters in and about his metropolis, to be in readiness, took a fancy of diverting himself in a very singular manner.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
My master alighted at an inn which he used to frequent; and after consulting awhile with the inn-keeper, and making some necessary preparations, he hired the grultrud, or crier, to give notice through the town of a strange creature to be seen at the sign of the Green Eagle, not so big as a splacnuck (an animal in that country very finely shaped, about six feet long,) and in every part of the body resembling a human creature, could speak several words, and perform a hundred diverting tricks.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
