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INTERESTING

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (adjective) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Arousing or holding the attention

Classified under:

Adjectives

Similar:

absorbing; engrossing; fascinating; gripping; riveting (capable of arousing and holding the attention)

entertaining (agreeably diverting)

amusing; amusive; diverting (providing enjoyment; pleasantly entertaining)

intriguing (capable of arousing interest or curiosity)

newsworthy (sufficiently interesting to be reported in a newspaper)

Also:

exciting (creating or arousing excitement)

stimulating (rousing or quickening activity or the senses)

Attribute:

interest; interestingness (the power of attracting or holding one's attention (because it is unusual or exciting etc.))

Antonym:

uninteresting (arousing no interest or attention or curiosity or excitement)

Derivation:

interestingness (the power of attracting or holding one's attention (because it is unusual or exciting etc.))

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

-ing form of the verb interest

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 Context examples: 

So, the fact that they still hadn't appeared before the end of the mission is telling us something interesting about Titan's methane cycle and weather.

(Cassini's Final View of Titan's Northern Lakes and Seas, NASA)

What’s interesting is that this noxious ice is made of two molecules that condensed together out of a rich mixture of gases at the south pole.

(NASA Team Finds Noxious Ice Cloud on Saturn’s Moon Titan, NASA)

Organic molecules are interesting to scientists because they are necessary, though not sufficient, components of life on Earth.

(Dawn Discovers Evidence for Organic Material on Ceres, NASA)

For a neuroscientist, the ‘Uncanny Valley’ is an interesting phenomenon.

(Scientists identify possible source of the ‘Uncanny Valley’ in the brain, University of Cambridge)

One interesting feature of these neurons is that they have large spatially organized receptive fields, yet can be activated by pulling a single hair.

(Study uncovers specialized mouse neurons that play a unique role in pain, National Institutes of Health)

What is interesting is this shows that the universe works in mysterious ways.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

Either possiblity for the interior of Mimas would be interesting, according to Tajeddine, as the moon's heavily cratered outward appearance does not suggest anything unusual lies beneath its surface.

(Saturn Moon May Hide a 'Fossil' Core or an Ocean, NASA)

“We thought there is an interesting relationship in nature,” Woo said.

(Oxygen-Producing Bacteria Could Help Heart Attack Sufferers, VOA News)

These, in turn, had a number of interesting effects in the body.

(How the body regulates salt levels, NIH)

“Very interesting—very interesting, indeed!” said Holmes, peering at this sinister relic.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)