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. Voltaire:

   The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.

2. Logan Pearsall Smith:

   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. Neil Postman:

   I believe I am not mistaken in saying that Christianity is a demanding and serious religion. When it is delivered as easy and amusing, it is another kind of religion altogether.

5. Laurence Sterne:

   Nothing is so perfectly amusing as a total change of ideas.