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amusing

verb
/əˈmjuːzɪŋ/

Etymology

By surface analysis, amuse + -ing.

Definitions

  1. present participle and gerund of amuse

  2. Entertaining.

    • The film has some amusing moments, but it is unlikely to make you laugh out loud.
    • We don’t get amusinger as we get older, we grow prosy and repeat ourselves and talk about our complaints and selfish grievances: but our old friends bear up with our dullness for old times’ sake; […]

  3. Funny, hilarious.

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Derived

amusingly, amusingness, semiamusing

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at amusing. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at amusing. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

7 hops · closes at amusing

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA