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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.

 

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