Amusing

Definition: Amusing

Amusing

Adjective

1. Providing enjoyment; pleasantly entertaining; "an amusing speaker"; "a diverting story"; "a fun thing to do".

2. Arousing or provoking laughter; "an amusing film with a steady stream of pranks and pratfalls"; "an amusing fellow"; "a comic hat"; "a comical look of surprise"; "funny stories that made everybody laugh"; "a very funny writer"; "it would have been laughable if it hadn't hurt so much"; "a mirthful experience"; "risible courtroom antics".

Date "amusing" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references)

The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted.
Entry	Source	Expression	Field
AMUSING	English	Algorithms,Models,User and Service Interfaces for Geography	Computing, European Union
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Synonyms: Amusing

Synonyms: amusive (adj), comic (adj), comical (adj), diverting (adj), fun(a) (adj), funny (adj), laughable (adj), mirthful (adj), risible (adj). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Amusement	Adjective: amusing, entertaining, diverting; Verb: recreational, recreative, lusory; pleasant; (pleasing); laughable; (ludicrous); witty; fun, festive, festal; jovial, jolly, jocund, roguish, rompish; playful, playful as a kitten; sportive, ludibrious.
Wit	Funny, amusing; (amusement).
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Amusing

English words defined with "amusing": amusingly, amusive, Anorthoscope ♦ Baby jumper, bantering, bestiary ♦ camp, card, codger, comic, comical ♦ diverting, divertingly, Divertive, drollery ♦ entertaining ♦ facetious, fun, funny, funny story ♦ good story ♦ humorist, humourist ♦ Jest book ♦ laughable, lead, lead-in, light opera ♦ merriment, mirthful ♦ old codger, operetta ♦ playfulness, pleasantry ♦ Recreative, risible ♦ Story-teller ♦ take off, tongue-in-cheek ♦ unamusing ♦ wag, waggery, wit. (references)

Specialty definitions using "amusing": Cockledemoy ♦ Jargon File ♦ munge ♦ play lot ♦ spelling flame ♦ tot-lot, TRAVELLING PIQUET. (references)

Etymologies containing "amusing": malapropism. (references)

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	I'm glad you find this amusing. (ReBoot; writing credit: Christy Marx; Mark Leiren-Young) I have some kerchiefs and some undershirts I hear some people call them wife-beaters, which I find most amusing. (Six Feet Under; writing credit: David Starkey) We, uh, we rode on Spike's hog, which was very cool, and, uh, played some amusing games, and--oh (Buffy the Vampire Slayer; writing credit: Doreen Spicer) I had hoped to be amusing Have I failed (The Mark of Zorro; writing credit: John Taintor Foote; Garrett Fort) Oh yes, I don't think it would be too amusing for the youngsters if I conjured up a demon from hell for them (Night of the Demon; writing credit: M.R. James; Charles Bennett)
Lyrics	I find it all so amusing. ("My Way"; performing artist: Frank Sinatra)
Clever	As a computer, I find your faith in technology amusing. (references; author: unknown)
Movie/TV Titles	Amusing the Kids (1915)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Domain	Title
Books	Amusing Moments in the Wild: Animals and Their Friends (reference) Amusing the Million: Coney Island at the Turn of the Century (reference) An Alarming History of Famous and Difficult Patients: Amusing Medical Anecdotes from Typhoid Mary to FDR (reference) Choosing The Amusing (reference) Hand Shadows and More Hand Shadows: A Series of Novel and Amusing Figures Formed by the Hand (reference) (more book examples)

Theater & Movies	Amusing Star (reference) (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music	Dancing Flutes: Amusing Arrangements of Well-Known Classics (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Thumbnail	Description & Credit	Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	Erie or the greased pole. A new and amusing game. Credit: Library of Congress.		Amusing Flaxie. Credit: Library of Congress.
	We will make it more amusing, said Sabastiano, eagerly. Credit: Library of Congress.		A rake's progress: The first step: an old widow woman offers him a mug of pumpkin wine. He finds it amusing. Credit: Library of Congress.
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Play	Caption
	Amusing; arbitrary; capricious; chancy; chimerical; comical; curious; dicey; droll; eccentric; erratic; fanciful; fantastic; flaky; freakish; funny; quaint; unertain; wagish; playful; animated; blithe; bouncy; cheerful; cheery; effervescent; elastic; fanc.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Author	Quotation
Charles Baudelaire	Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself.
James A. Froude	Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one to whom the torture and death of his fellow creatures is amusing in itself.
Michel Eyquem De Montaigne	When I play with my cat, who knows whether she is not amusing herself with me more than I with her.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Title	Author	Quote
Emma	Austen, Jane	That very dear part of Emma, her fancy, received an amusing supply
Les Miserables	Hugo, Victor	She had changed rags with the first young rogue who thought it amusing to dress as a woman while Eponine disguised herself as a man.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Subject	Topic	Quote
Travel	Czech Rep	Although the Czechs regard the custom as an amusing American oddity, they are also very amenable to attending, as an offer of food is always considered gracious and the typical Czech working day starts early. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Speaker	Phrase(s)
Tom Brokaw	Well, I like appearing with you and I like appearing with Dave, because I never know where the next question's coming from in both cases, and he always has an active interest in what's going on in the news as well as being very amusing obviously.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

"Amusing" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 91.02% of the time. "Amusing" is used about 678 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)	91.02%	617	10,463
Lexical Verb (-ing form)	8.98%	61	43,149
Total	100.00%	678	N/A

Expressions using "amusing": amusing joke ♦ amusing stories ♦ be amusing ♦ highly amusing ♦ most amusing one. Additional references.
Hypenated Usage
	Ending with "amusing": usually-amusing.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "amusing"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Afrikaans		amusant (entertaining, funny). (various references)

Albanian		argëtues (diverting, frolic, humorous, jocose, recreative, rollicking, voluptuous), zbavitës (diverting, entertaining, escapist, full of beans, funny, light), dëfryes (entertaining, frolicsome). (various references)

Arabic		‏مله, ‏مسلي (amusement, beguiler, diverting, entertaining, pleasant, refreshing, sidesplitting), ‏مسل (comforting, consolatory, entertaining, funny, sportive), ‏مؤانس, ‏ظريف (amiable, amicable, companionable, fine, flowing, gallant, humorist, humorous, humourist, jolly, likeable, nice, obliging, pet, pleasing, prepossessing, pretty, quaint, stylish, witty, wry). (various references)

Bulgarian		смешен (comic, comical, derisive, derisory, farcical, foolish, funny, laughable, laughing, ludicrous, quizzical, ridiculous, risible, screwy), занимателен (entertaining, interesting, recreational, recreative, sportful), забавен (comic, comical, delayed, diverting, entertaining, funny, interesting, laughable, merry, recreational, recreative, sportful). (various references)

Chinese		有趣 (fascinating, interesting), 发笑 (Amuse, Amused). (various references)

Czech		zábavný (delectable, entertaining, humorous, light, pleasant, sporting), legraèní (chaffy, comic, comical, facetious, funny, good, humorous, piffling), komický (comic, comical, droll, funny, grotesque, humorous, quaint). (various references)

Danish		morsom (entertaining, funny). (various references)

Dutch		leuk (entertaining, fine, fun, funny, glad, nice), amusant (entertaining, funny), aardig (affable, dainty, entertaining, fair, fairly, friendly, funny, good-natured, kind, nice, pretty, rather, relatively, tidy). (various references)

Esperanto		amuza (entertaining, funny), gajiga. (various references)

Finnish		lystikäs (droll, funny, jolly), huvittava (entertaining), hupaisa (jolly), hauska (delightful, jolly, nice, pleasant, pleasurable). (various references)

French		amusant, drôle. (various references)

Frisian		fermaaklik (entertaining, funny). (various references)

German		vergnüglich (enjoyable, lighthearted, pleasurable), amüsant (amusingly, enchanting, entertaining, exhilarating, funny), unterhaltsam (chatty, enjoyable, entertaining, funny, sportful). (various references)

Greek		διασκεδαστικόσ (entertaining, humorous, killing, recreative). (various references)

Hebrew		משעשע (comic, comical, entertaining, funny), מבדח (comic, comical, humorous, jocose, jocular, playful), מצחיק (comic, comical, droll, funny, humorous, laughable, ludicrous, ridiculous). (various references)

Hungarian		szórakoztató (cabaret, diverting, entertainer, entertaining, funny, rich), élvezetes (delectable, delightsome, enjoyable, pleasurable), mulattató (diverting). (various references)

Indonesian		menyenangkan (agreeable, comfortable, congenial, cozy, enjoyable, entertaining, fine, groovy, pleasant). (various references)

Italian		divertente (droll, enjoyable, entertaining, funny, hilarious, humorous). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		面白い　 (interesting), 面白い (interesting), 面白 (interesting), 可笑しい (funny, ridiculous, strange). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		おかしい (funny, ridiculous, strange), おもしろい (interesting), おもしろ (interesting). (various references)

Korean		즐겁게 함. (various references)

Manx		taitnyssagh (acceptable, amiable, appealing, charmed, congenial, delectable, delightful, enchanting, endearing, enjoyable, entertaining, grateful, likeable, nice, pleasant, pleasing, pleasurable, prepossessing, scrumptious). (various references)

Papiamen		dibertido (entertaining, funny), chistoso (entertaining, funny), chaskero (entertaining, funny). (various references)

Pig Latin		amusingay.(various references)

Polish		zabawny (entertaining, funny). (various references)

Portuguese		divertido (amused, canty, diverting, droll, enjoyable, entertaining, frolicsome, funny, gamy, gay, hilarious, jolly, larksome, laughable, merry, mirthful, playful, screaming, sportful, sportive, waggish). (various references)

Romanian		amuzant (as good as a play, diverting, droll, entertaining, funny, jocular, laughable, light, quaint), nostim (attractive, droll, funny, good, pert), interesant (appealing, attractive, catchy, fruity, interesting, nutty, readable, sapid, strange), hazliu (comic, droll, entertaining, funny, gamesome, humorous, laughable, waggish), glumeţ (facetious, funny, humorous, jestful, jesting, jocose, lively, merry, playful, prankish, sly, wag, witty), distractiv (diverting, entertaining, funny, jocular). (various references)

Russian		смешной (comic, comical, farcical, funny, humorous, jokey, laughable, laughing, ludicrous, merry, risible), занятный (interesting). (various references)

Scottish		neònach (droll, eccentric, odd, surprising, unusual). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		zanimljiv (diverting, interesting), zabavan (comical, diverting, droll, entertaining, recreative, sportful, sportive), smešan (comical, droll, funny, hilarious, laughable, ludicrous, rich, ridicule, ridiculous). (various references)

Spanish		divertido (amused, comic, comical, distrait, diverting, droll, enchanting, enjoyable, entertaining, funny, jolly, merry), entretenido (amused, entertaining, kept), cómico (comedian, comic, comical, entertaining, funny, humorous, laughable, player, zany). (various references)

Sranan		prisiri (entertaining, fun, funny, pleasure). (various references)

Swedish		rolig (buffo, droll, entertaining, fun, funny, good, hilarious), lustig (comic, droll, funny, hilarious, humorous, jocular, odd). (various references)

Turkish		komik (burlesque, comedian, comic, comical, droll, farcical, funny, funnyman, gilbertian, humorous, jesting, jocose, laugh, laughable, laughing, ludicrous, quizzical, rich, ridiculous, risible, rum, rummy), gülünç (burlesque, camp, comic, derisive, derisory, droll, fantastic, fantastical, foolish, funny, gilbertian, grotesque, humorous, jesting, laughable, ludicrous, ridiculous), eğlenceli (enjoyable, entertaining, fun, lively, rollicking, saturnalian, sociable, upbeat). (various references)

Turkmen		gьяmenje. (various references)

Ukrainian		смішний (boffo, capricious, comic, comical, droll, funny, laughable, ludicrous, risible, zany), цікавий (curious, entertaining, interesting, newsworthy, nosey, nosy, nutty, pry, visitable), кумедний (funny, killing, laughable, priceless, side-splitting, zany), забавний (diverting, humorous, humous). (various references)

Vietnamese		vui (diverting, merrily, merry, mirthful, pleasant), tiêu khiển (recreative), làm cho buồn cười; giải trí. (various references)

Welsh		ysmala (arch, droll, funny), difyrrus (diverting), difyr (diverting, pleasant), diddan (diverting, pleasant). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "amusing": amusingly, amusingness, amusingnesses. (additional references)
	Words ending with "amusing": mandamusing, unamusing. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Amusing" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: amisian, amissing, amizing, amunsing, amussing, amuzing, anusing, asuming, Ausino, Aussig, Kamsing, Maisang, Marusin. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "amusing" (pronounced umyuw"zing)
6	-m y uw" z i ng	musing.
5	-y uw" z i ng	abusing, accusing, confusing, defusing, diffusing, excusing, fusing, infusing, misusing, overusing, recusing, refusing, reusing, using.
4	-uw" z i ng	boozing, bruising, choosing, cruising, losing, oozing, perusing, schmoozing, snoozing.
3	-z i ng	antagonizing, apologizing, appeasing, appetizing, appraising, arising, advertising, advising, aggrandizing, agonizing, amazing, amortizing, analyzing, arousing, authorizing, blazing, bowsing, browsing, brutalizing, bulldozing, buzzing, cannibalizing, capitalizing, carousing, categorizing, causing, centralizing, characterizing, chastising, cleansing, closing, colorizing, commercializing, composing, comprising, compromising, computerizing, criminalizing, criticizing, crystallizing, customizing, decentralizing, decomposing, decriminalizing, deemphasizing, dehumanizing, demilitarizing, democratizing, demonizing, demoralizing, denationalizing, desensitizing, destabilizing, devising, digitizing, disclosing, disguising, disposing, downsizing, dozing, dramatizing, easing, economizing, editorializing, emphasizing, enclosing, energizing, enterprising, equalizing, espousing, exercising, exposing, fantasizing, federalizing, fertilizing, finalizing, foreclosing, formalizing, franchising, fraternizing, freezing, galvanizing, gazing, generalizing, glamorizing, glazing, grazing, harmonizing, hazing, hosing, housing, humanizing, hydrolyzing, idolizing, immobilizing, immortalizing, immunizing, imposing, improvising, industrializing, institutionalizing, ionizing, ironizing, itemizing, jeopardizing, legalizing, legitimizing, liberalizing, marginalizing, materializing, maximizing, memorizing, merchandising, mesmerizing, minimizing, mobilizing, modernizing, monopolizing, moralizing, nationalizing, neutralizing, normalizing, nosing, opposing, organizing, overgrazing, oxidizing, paralyzing, paraphrasing, patronizing, pausing, penalizing, personalizing, phasing, phrasing, pleasing, polarizing, politicizing, popularizing, posing, praising, predisposing, prioritizing, privatizing, proposing, proselytizing, publicizing, quizzing, raising, rationalizing, razing, realizing, reauthorizing, recapitalizing, recognizing, reimposing, reorganizing, revising, revitalizing, revolutionizing, rising, romanticizing, Rosing, sanitizing, satirizing, scrutinizing, securitizing, seizing, sensationalizing, sizing, sneezing, socializing, specializing, squeezing, stabilizing, standardizing, sterilizing, stigmatizing, strategizing, subsidizing, summarizing, supervising, supposing, surprising, symbolizing, sympathizing, synthesizing, tantalizing, teasing, televising, temporizing, terrorizing, theorizing, tranquilizing, trivializing, unappetizing, uncompromising, unionizing, unsurprising, uprising, utilizing, vandalizing, verbalizing, victimizing, visualizing, warehousing, wheezing, whizzing, womanizing.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-g-i-m-n-s-u"
	-1 letter: animus, gamins, musing.
	-2 letters: agism, amins, gains, gamin, gaums, guans, magus, mains, manus, minas, minus, munis, sagum, sigma, suing, unais, using.
	-3 letters: agin, aims, ains, amin, amis, amus, anis, anus, gain, gams, gaum, gaun, gins, gnus, guan, gums, guns, magi, mags, main, mans, maun, migs, mina, mugs, muni, muns, nags, nims, sain, sang.
	Words containing the letters "a-g-i-m-n-s-u"
	+1 letter: assuming.
	+2 letters: ambushing, amusingly, campusing, fumigants, geraniums, guildsman, gymnasium, ignoramus, magnesium, measuring, mulligans, origanums, summating, surnaming, umangites, unamusing, unmasking, unseaming.
	+3 letters: ascogonium, ausforming, coassuming, germaniums, glutamines, gramineous, gymnasiums, humanising, magnesiums, magnitudes, migrainous, misgauging, misvaluing, outshaming, reassuming, salmagundi, simulating, sporangium, unassuming, vaginismus.
	+4 letters: accustoming, admeasuring, ambuscading, amusingness, angiomatous, anisogamous, fumigations, gadoliniums, glucosamine, glutaminase, gourmandise, gourmandism, ignoramuses, ligamentous, magnanimous, mandamusing, misguidance, multigrains, mutagenesis, outsmarting, ragamuffins, remeasuring, salmagundis, scrummaging, stimulating, sublimating, submarginal, submarining, subsampling, summarising, summarizing, transmuting, unambiguous, vanguardism.
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Expression	Frequency per Day
amusing fact	25
amusing	22
amusing picture	21
amusing quote	20
amusing pic	10
amusing ourselves to death	8
amusing poetry	7
amusing photo	6
amusing story	5
amusing web site	4
amusing things	4
amusing site	4
amusing video	4
amusing quotation	3
amusing game	3
amusing anecdote	3
amusing it like s simple style will	2
amusing liner one	2
amusing joke	2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.


"Sex Graffiti" by Christie Ortiz Commentary: "An amusing piece of graffiti that adorns one of the walls at the river front. My little bro found this particularly funny, but that's cuz he's 12, ok so i found it funny as well and i am much older, so what does that say about me? hehe ;)."	"Fatima Sanctuary" by Luis Alves Commentary: "On 13 May 1917, three children were pasturing their little flock in the Cova da Iria, parish of Fatima, town of Vila Nova de Ourém. today the diocese of Leiria-Fatima. They were called: Lucia de Jesus, aged 10, and her cousins Francisco and Jacinta Marto,"
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers.

Amusing

Definition: Amusing

Amusing

Adjective

Abbreviations & Acronyms: Amusing

AMUSING

Synonyms: Amusing

Synonyms within Context: Amusing

Amusement

Wit

Crosswords: Amusing

Modern Usage: Amusing

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Sounds Captioned with "Amusing".

Familiar Quotations: Amusing

Charles Baudelaire

James A. Froude

Michel Eyquem De Montaigne

Use in Literature: Amusing

Emma

Austen, Jane

Les Miserables

Hugo, Victor

Non-Fiction Usage: Amusing

Spoken Usage: Amusing

Tom Brokaw

Usage Frequency: Amusing

Expression: Amusing

Frequency of Internet Keywords: Amusing

Modern Translation: Amusing

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