entertaining

[en-ter-tey-ning]

adjective

1. affording entertainment; amusing; diverting.

   We spent an entertaining evening at the theater.

entertaining

/ ˌɛntəˈteɪnɪŋ /

adjective

1. serving to entertain or give pleasure; diverting; amusing

Other Word Forms

• entertainingly adverb
• nonentertaining adjective
• quasi-entertaining adjective
• self-entertaining adjective
• unentertaining adjective
• unentertainingly adverb

Word History and Origins

Origin of entertaining¹

First recorded in 1615–25; entertain + -ing ²

Example Sentences

On a December night in 1598, the Theatre died the way it had lived, in a legally dubious and highly entertaining escapade.

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“Intelligence work is not a series of rip-roaring adventures, a string of tricks or an entertaining trip abroad,” Abel cautioned.

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However, the Warner board acknowledged last month that it was also entertaining offers for the entire company — or its parts — after David Ellison’s Paramount expressed its interest with formal bids.

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Unintentional profanity or intentional “unscripted” acts remain the unavoidable but predictably entertaining wild cards of the genre.

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And some money managers will write entertaining pieces featuring predictions for 2026 along with confessions about how their 2025 predictions turned out.

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