What are some opposite words for amuse?
Antonyms for amuse
əˈmyuzamuse
This page is about all possible antonyms and opposite words for the term amuse.
Wiktionary
amuseverb
amuseverb
To entertain or occupy in a pleasant manner; to stir with pleasing emotions.
amuseverb
To cause laughter, to be funny.
amuseverb
To keep in expectation; to beguile; to delude.
He amused his followers with idle promises. -Johnson.
amuseverb
To divert attention, to distract, to bewilder.
English Synonyms and Antonyms
amuse
To entertain, in the sense here considered, is to engage and pleasantly occupy the attention; to amuse is to occupy the attention in an especially bright and cheerful way, often with that which excites merriment or laughter; as, he entertained us with an amusing story. To divert is to turn from serious thoughts or laborious pursuits to something that lightly and agreeably occupies the mind; one may be entertained or amused who has nothing serious or laborious from which to be diverted. To recreate, literally to re-create, is to engage mind or body in some pleasing activity that restores strength and energy for serious work. To beguile is, as it were, to cheat into cheer and comfort by something that insensibly draws thought or feeling away from pain or disquiet. We beguile a weary hour, cheer the despondent, divert the preoccupied, enliven a dull evening or company, gratify our friends' wishes, entertain, interest, please a listening audience, occupy idle time, disport ourselves when merry, recreate when worn with toil; we amuse ourselves or others with whatever pleasantly passes the time without special exertion, each according to his taste.
Antonyms:
annoy, bore, busy, disquiet, distract, disturb, tire, wearySynonyms:
beguile, cheer, delight, disport, divert, enliven, entertain, gratify, interest, occupy, please, recreate
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Princeton's WordNet
amuse, divert, disportverb
occupy in an agreeable, entertaining or pleasant fashion
"The play amused the ladies"
Synonyms:
deviate, lark, sport, romp, run around, cavort, lark about, rollick, divert, frolic, disport, hive off, gambol, frisk, skylarkamuseverb
make (somebody) laugh
"The clown amused the children"
How to use amuse in a sentence?
It’s a new step for me. We will welcome people from all over, I expect. Access is going to depend on the time of year. It will be cosy, charming and unique, it’s exciting bringing back to life an old, sad building and again giving it purpose. It is a new departure for us to try short lets and we hope it will amuse people.
Education is not to reform students or amuse them or to make them expert technicians. It is to unsettle their minds, widen their horizons, inflame their intellects, teach them to think straight, if possible.
Let us not teach them, but amuse them.
You make ’em, I amuse ’em.
Everyone carries his own inch rule of taste, and amuse himself by applying it, triumphantly, wherever he travels.
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