the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
adj. Tending to divert; diverting; amusing; interesting.
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
Tending to divert; diverting.
Word Usage
"From the very beginning of the Irish National Dramatic Company, Mr. Yeats has been an advocate of scenery that is background chiefly, and in no way divertive of attention from the play itself, its thought, its words, its acting."