Word Meanings - DIVERTING - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Amusing; entertaining. -- Di*vert"ing*ly, adv. -- Di*vert"ing*ness, n.
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- 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, - DROLLER
A jester; a droll. Glanvill. - DIVERTIBLE
Capable of being diverted. - 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.