amusing

verb

1. 1

   Also a form of amusepresent participle and gerund of amuse

adjective

1. 1

   Entertaining.

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

   We don’t get amusinger as we get older, we grow prosy and repeat ourselves and talk about our complaints and selfish grievances: but our old friends bear up with our dullness for old times’ sake; […]

   Never borrow money for my amusements. Now paying Mrs. McCrowder just at this present period would be an amusement. In fact when we consider the quality of the article she gives, I think that paying her on the nail would be about the amusingest little thing I could do.

   ‘It's rather like a beautiful Inverness cloak one has inherited. Much too good to hide away, so one wears it instead of an overcoat and pretends it's an amusing new fashion.’

2. 2

   Funny, hilarious.

   An amusing incident on the first of these journeys was the checking by signal of the flyer about 3 miles out of Paris, with the result that it was overhauled by the 6.25 p.m. semi-fast from Paris to Montargis, to the unconcealed delight of passengers in the latter.

   [T]hey’d had to call it something – i.e. something that differentiated this occasion from others where they might just go for a pint or a curry. So beer & sausages had somehow happily invented itself, […] The best thing, of course, the amusingest thing, was that no one ever brought beer and Jas had only actually done sausages once.

Forms

comparative

more amusing, amusinger

superlative

most amusing, amusingest