Synonyms for amusing
əˈmyu zɪŋamus·ing

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1. amusingadjective

   Antonyms:
   unamusing

2. amusingadjective

   The film has some amusing moments, but it is unlikely to make you laugh out loud.

   Antonyms:
   unamusing

3. amusingadjective

   Antonyms:
   unamusing

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1. amusing, amusive, divertingadjective

   providing enjoyment; pleasantly entertaining

   "an amusing speaker"; "a diverting story"

   Synonyms:
   mirthful, diverting, laughable, funny, amusive, comical, risible, comic

   Antonyms:
   humorless, unhumorous, uninteresting, humourless

2. amusing, comic, comical, funny, laughable, mirthful, risibleadjective

   arousing or provoking laughter

   "an amusing film with a steady stream of pranks and pratfalls"; "an amusing fellow"; "a comic hat"; "a comical look of surprise"; "funny stories that made everybody laugh"; "a very funny writer"; "it would have been laughable if it hadn't hurt so much"; "a mirthful experience"; "risible courtroom antics"

   Synonyms:
   shady, comic, ridiculous, laughable, peculiar, jovial, rum, nonsensical, amusive, odd, cockeyed, diverting, jolly, singular, suspicious, ludicrous, funny, jocund, preposterous, merry, mirthful, risible, fishy, gay, derisory, absurd, comical, suspect, rummy, idiotic, curious

   Antonyms:
   humorless, uninteresting, unhumorous, humourless

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1. amusingadjective

   Synonyms:
   entertaining, diverting, laughable, ridiculous, comical, funny, farcical, risible

2. amusingadjective

   Synonyms:
   each, every

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1. amusingadjective

   Synonyms:
   pleasing, diverting, laughable, entertaining, farcical, droll, divertive

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1. List of paraphrases for "amusing":

   fun, funny, entertaining, droll

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1. Vivienne Rudd:

   There's a certain cachet with French brands, however, and it's amusing to see Chinese brands creating names in Chinese that, when pronounced phonetically, sound very much like French names.

2. James Anthony Froude:

   Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one to whom the torture and death of his fellow creatures is amusing in itself.

3. Logan Pearsall Smith:

   I cannot forgive my friends for dying I do not find these vanishing acts of theirs at all amusing.

4. Brendan Hunt:

   I had made that video one night when I had been having a bunch of beers, smoking a little weed, taken a few bong rips, and I kind of did this spur of the moment video, just spewing out some rhetoric, and I didn't think anything was wrong at the time, i thought it was sort of amusing in a way. And Inauguration Day later I checked back into Inauguration Day with a bit of a sober mind and saw that Inauguration Day wasn't really sparking the dialogue that I had hoped to get going.

5. Mark Ronson:

   If I'd known all the stuff that was going on, I don't know if I would have thought it was so amusing, but she said it in such a light way.