entertaining
adjective
en·ter·tain·ing
ˌen-tər-ˈtā-niŋ 
: providing entertainment : diverting
an entertaining book
an entertaining speaker
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Examples of entertaining in a Sentence
a list of entertaining things to do on a snow day
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Julie Seabaugh, Los Angeles Times, 15 Jan. 2025
The memoirs of former national leaders are rarely entertaining, insightful, or revealing.
—Foreign Affairs, 14 Jan. 2025
On this basis, Tottenham are the most entertaining team in the country.
—Jack Pitt-Brooke, The Athletic, 14 Jan. 2025
Season 2 of Big Brother was as wildly entertaining as the first installment was painfully boring.
—Dalton Ross, EW.com, 13 Jan. 2025
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“Entertaining.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/entertaining. Accessed 20 Jan. 2025.
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entertaining
adjective
en·ter·tain·ing
ˌen-tər-ˈtān-iŋ
: providing amusement, diversion, or recreation
an entertaining book
entertainingly
adverb
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