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Synonyms for entertain
ˌɛn tərˈteɪnen·ter·tain

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English Synonyms and Antonyms4.5 / 2 votes

  1. entertain

    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.

    Synonyms:
    amuse, beguile, cheer, delight, disport, divert, enliven, gratify, interest, occupy, please, recreate

    Antonyms:
    annoy, bore, busy, disquiet, distract, disturb, tire, weary

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms0.0 / 0 votes

  1. entertain

    Synonyms:
    harbor, maintain, conceive, foster, receive, recreate, amuse

    Antonyms:
    eject, exclude, deny, debar, annoy, weary, bore, tire

Princeton's WordNet0.0 / 0 votes

  1. entertainverb

    provide entertainment for

    Synonyms:
    flirt with, think about, nurse, harbour, toy with, hold, think of, harbor

  2. entertain, think of, toy with, flirt with, think aboutverb

    take into consideration, have in view

    "He entertained the notion of moving to South America"

    Synonyms:
    dream up, mean, harbour, concoct, think about, repute, esteem, hold, hatch, remember, think up, harbor, have in mind, regard as, flirt with, look on, toy with, nurse, look upon, think of, take to be

  3. harbor, harbour, hold, entertain, nurseverb

    maintain (a theory, thoughts, or feelings)

    "bear a grudge"; "entertain interesting notions"; "harbor a resentment"

    Synonyms:
    accommodate, book, retain, moderate, view as, support, apply, hold back, harbour, defend, take hold, bind, suck, deem, hold up, toy with, arrest, breastfeed, take, have, concord, think about, check, make, take for, go for, throw, defy, control, harbor, keep, suckle, obligate, carry, give, adjudge, nurse, oblige, curb, hold, lactate, confine, have got, restrain, wet-nurse, withstand, agree, hold in, flirt with, halt, contain, think of, concur, maintain, guard, shield, keep back, sustain, prevail, reserve, admit, obtain, declare, give suck, bear

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Dictionary of English Synonymes1.0 / 1 vote

  1. entertainverb

    Synonyms:
    lodge, treat hospitably, show hospitality to, receive as a guest

  2. entertainverb

    Synonyms:
    feed, maintain, support

  3. entertainverb

    Synonyms:
    hold, cherish, harbor

  4. entertainverb

    Synonyms:
    take into consideration

  5. entertainverb

    Synonyms:
    divert, amuse, please

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words0.0 / 0 votes

  1. entertainverb

    Synonyms:
    divert, amuse, please, junket, beguile, cheer, harbor, hold, lodge

PPDB, the paraphrase database0.0 / 0 votes

  1. List of paraphrases for "entertain":

    amuse, distract, entertaining, hear

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How to use entertain in a sentence?

  1. Eduardo Rodriguez:

    I can't even entertain the possibility [of a head transplant] — it's a little too much science fiction right now.

  2. Michael Lang:

    We've lined up artists who won't just entertain but will remind the world that music has the power to bring people together, to heal, to move us to action and to tell the stories of a generation, our hope is that today, just as in 1969, music will be the constant that can inspire positive change.

  3. Jeb Bush:

    If they want to hear someone who's authentic, who has plans for the future, who has leadership skills to fix a few big complex things, who will listen to them and not necessarily entertain them, then they should come to my event, or come to both, I don't care. I'm happy to compare and contrast.

  4. Marcus Aelius Aurelius:

    The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.

  5. Gomez Fernandez:

    His ultimate intention was to entertain audiences in a wholesome way.


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