interesting
engaging or exciting and holding the attention or curiosity: an interesting book.
arousing a feeling of interest: an interesting face.
Idioms about interesting
in an interesting condition, (of a woman) pregnant.
Origin of interesting
1Other words for interesting
Opposites for interesting
Other words from interesting
- in·ter·est·ing·ly, adverb
- in·ter·est·ing·ness, noun
- un·in·ter·est·ing, adjective
- un·in·ter·est·ing·ly, adverb
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How to use interesting in a sentence
As a distinctly American novel, 'Buell Hampton' has, for abundance of thrilling incident and pure interestingness, no superior.
Love Sonnets of an Office Boy | Samuel Ellsworth KiserAnd, finally, as a key to interest, a teacher needs to know what the "factors of interestingness" are.
Principles of Teaching | Adam S. BennionThe makers of literature are those who have seen and felt the miraculous interestingness of the universe.
Literary Taste: How to Form It | Arnold BennettAll literature is the expression of feeling, of passion, of emotion, caused by a sensation of the interestingness of life.
Literary Taste: How to Form It | Arnold BennettHe worked hard and he worked cleverly, and as the cities grew in beauty and interestingness he loved them more and more.
The Magic City | Edith Nesbit
British Dictionary definitions for interesting
/ (ˈɪntrɪstɪŋ, -tərɪs-) /
inspiring interest; absorbing
Derived forms of interesting
- interestingly, adverb
- interestingness, noun
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