Word Meanings - AMUSING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Giving amusement; diverting; as, an amusing story. -- A*mus"ing*ly, adv.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of AMUSING)

• Droll
• Whimsical
• comical
• odd
• queer
• amusing
• laughable
• funny
• comic
• fantastic
• farcical

Related words: (words related to AMUSING)

• FANTASTIC
  1. Existing only in imagination; fanciful; imaginary; not real; chimerical. 2. Having the nature of a phantom; unreal. Shak. 3. Indulging the vagaries of imagination; whimsical; full of absurd fancies; capricious; as, fantastic minds; a fantastic
• FANTASTICALITY
  Fantastically.
• QUEERISH
  Rather queer; somewhat singular.
• 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.
• 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.
• AMUSE
  1. To occupy or engage the attention of; to lose in deep thought; to absorb; also, to distract; to bewilder. Camillus set upon the Gauls when they were amused in receiving their gold. Holland. Being amused with grief, fear, and fright, he could
• FANTASTICLY
  Fantastically.
• 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.
• FANTASTICISM
  The quality of being fantastical; fancifulness; whimsicality. Ruskin.
• COMICRY
  The power of exciting mirth; comicalness. H. Giles.
• AMUSING
  Giving amusement; diverting; as, an amusing story. -- A*mus"ing*ly, adv.
• FANTASTICAL
  Fanciful; unreal; whimsical; capricious; fantastic.
• FANTASTICNESS
  Fantasticalness.
• COMICALITY
  The quality of being comical; something comical.
• FUNNY
  Droll; comical; amusing; laughable. Funny bone. See crazy bone, under Crazy.
• QUEERNESS
  The quality or state of being queer.
• WHIMSICALITY
  The quality or state of being whimsical; whimsicalness.
• FANTASTICO
  A fantastic. Shak.
• RAMUSCULE
  A small ramus, or branch.
• HIPPOPOTAMUS
  A large, amphibious, herbivorous mammal (Hippopotamus amphibius), common in the rivers of Africa. It is allied to the hogs, and has a very thick, naked skin, a thick and square head, a very large muzzle, small eyes and ears, thick and heavy body,
• CAMUS
  See CAMIS
• GEROCOMICAL
  Pertaining to gerocomy. Dr. John Smith.