Antonyms 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"

   Antonyms:
   humorless, unhumorous, uninteresting, humourless

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

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"

   Antonyms:
   humorless, uninteresting, unhumorous, humourless

   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

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1. amusingadjective

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

How to use amusing in a sentence?

1. 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.

2. George Bernard Shaw:

   I can't forgive my friends for dying I don't find these vanishing acts of theirs at all amusing.

3. Stephen Miller:

   Like many things CNN says, this story has the most important virtue of all CNN stories, of being not true, it’s an amusing story, but not a true one.

4. Charles Krauthammer:

   When you say to the audience openly, ‘This election isn't about you, it's about me,’ when you're supposed to say, ‘It's all about you’…then you've gone over a line. what kind of person, even trying to make an amusing point, is going to say something like that, ‘Get my numbers up,’ basically, ‘I'm melting, I'm melting, help me out here,’.

5. Sal Salasin:

   Some are born to greatness and some have greatness thrust upon them for blowing off the hands and feet of Nicaraguan coffee harvesters. The rest of us are forced to work. It’s amusing but nothing logical or scientific.

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