Skip to content
OneKitly

engaging

adjectiveverbnounattested in dialogue

  • //ɪnˈɡeɪd͡ʒɪŋ//
  • //ɪŋˈɡeɪd͡ʒɪŋ//

Tending to engage attention or interest; engrossing, interesting; enthralling.

adjective

  1. 1

    Tending to engage attention or interest; engrossing, interesting; enthralling.

    I found her latest book to be a very engaging read.

  2. 2

    Charming; attractive, especially of a manner or behaviour.

    The new intern has a bright, engaging personality.

verb

  1. 1

    Also a form of engagepresent participle and gerund of engage

noun

  1. 1

    The act of engaging with something; engagement.

    If you dig deeper into the criminal engagings of Hillary Clinton, you might perhaps end up at the Clinton Foundation. Look at what the Clinton foundation actually does with its money (or doesn't do) or even worse, who has donated large sums of money.

Forms

plural
engagings
comparative
more engaging
superlative
most engaging
The neighbouring pagesAlphabetical order follows the rules of the language, not byte values: an accent decides only between two otherwise identical words, and Spanish files Ñ as a letter of its own.

Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).