Amuse

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • v. To occupy in an agreeable, pleasing, or entertaining fashion.
  • v. To cause to laugh or smile by giving pleasure: I was not amused by his jokes.
  • v. Archaic To delude or deceive.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • v. To entertain or occupy in a pleasant manner; to stir with pleasing emotions.
  • v. To cause laughter, to be funny.
  • v. To keep in expectation; to beguile; to delude.
  • v. To divert attention, to distract, to bewilder.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • v. To occupy or engage the attention of; to lose in deep thought; to absorb; also, to distract; to bewilder.
  • v. To entertain or occupy in a pleasant manner; to stir with pleasing or mirthful emotions; to divert.
  • v. To keep in expectation; to beguile; to delude.
  • verb-intransitive. To muse; to mediate.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To cause to muse; absorb or engage in meditation; occupy or engage wholly; bewilder; puzzle.
  • To keep in expectation, as by flattery, plausible pretenses, and the like; delude; keep in play.
  • To fix the attention of agreeably; engage the fancy of; cause to feel cheerful or merry; entertain; divert: as, to amuse an audience with anecdotes or tricks, or children with toys.
  • Synonyms Amuse, Divert, Entertain, Beguile, occupy, please, enliven. Amuse may imply merely the prevention of the tedium of idleness or emptiness of mind: as, I can amuse myself by looking out at the window; or it may suggest a stronger interest: as, I was greatly amused by their tricks. Divert is to turn the attention aside, and (in the use considered here) to something light or mirthful. Entertain is to engage and sustain the attention by something of a pleasing and perhaps instructive character, as conversation; hence the general name entertainment for lectures, exhibitions, etc., designed to interest in this way. “Whatever amuses serves to kill time, to lull the faculties and banish reflection; it may be solitary, sedentary, and lifeless: whatever diverts causes mirth and provokes laughter; it will be active, lively, and tumultuous: whatever entertains acts on the senses and awakens the understanding; it must be rational and is mostly social.” Crabb. Beguile is, figuratively, to cheat one out of weariness, of dull time, etc. The word is as often thus applied to the thing as to the person: as, to beguile a weary hour; to beguile one of his cares.
  • To muse; meditate.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • v. make (somebody) laugh
  • v. occupy in an agreeable, entertaining or pleasant fashion
  • Verb Form
    amused    amuses    amusing   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    entertain   
    Form
    amusement   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    deceive    beguile    please    divert    entertain    gratify    occupy    delude    muse    mediate   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Chartreuse    Cruz    Druse    Druze    Hughes    Jews    Loos    Mahfouz    Meuse    Muse   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    fascinate    humorous    pleasant    funny    attractive    instructive    ridiculous    ludicrous