diverting
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English[edit]
Adjective[edit]
diverting (comparative more diverting, superlative most diverting)
- (dated) Amusing, distracting.
- 1726 October 28, [Jonathan Swift], “Several Adventures that Happened to the Author. […]”, in Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. […] [Gulliver’s Travels], volume I, London: […] Benj[amin] Motte, […], →OCLC, part II (A Voyage to Brobdingnag), page 247:
- I was every day furniſhing the Court with ſome ridiculous Story; and Glumdalclitch, although ſhe loved me to Exceſs, yet was arch enough to inform the Queen, whenever I committed any Folly that ſhe thought would be diverting to her Majeſty.
Verb[edit]
diverting
- present participle and gerund of divert
References[edit]
- “diverting, adj.”, in OED Online
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