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entertaining

adj
/ˌɛntəɹˈteɪnɪŋ/

Etymology

From entertain + -ing.

  1. derived from inter
  2. derived from entretenir
  3. derived from entretenir
  4. inherited from entertenen
  5. suffixed as entertaining — “entertain + ing”

Definitions

  1. Very amusing

    Very amusing; that entertains.

    • The smiths themselves were a grand lot of fellows, full of a robust, and sometimes Rabelaisian sense of humour, and between "heats," they could be most entertaining.
    • Sunderland came back from two goals down to earn a point from an entertaining encounter with West Brom.

  2. present participle and gerund of entertain

  3. Entertainment.

    • As soon as the festival was over, and the usual routine of summer entertainings and meetings had been got through, the Bishop and Mrs. Selwyn, accompanied by their large family party and some friends, started for a quiet holiday […]

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

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

8 hops · closes at entertaining

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