Synonyms of diverting

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adjective

as in amusing

providing amusement or enjoyment

some tall and diverting tales were told by the festival's roving storyteller

Synonyms & Similar Words

• amusing
• fun
• enjoyable
• entertaining
• delightful
• pleasurable
• exciting
• pleasant
• nice
• funny
• satisfying
• recreational
• beguiling
• humorous
• welcome
• merry
• ridiculous
• stimulating
• agreeable
• happy
• comical
• comic
• riotous
• hilarious
• ludicrous
• droll
• farcical
• thrilling
• laughable
• antic
• uproarious
• sunny
• jolly
• jovial
• gleeful
• jocose
• risible
• mirthful
• sidesplitting
• gay
• blithesome
• jocund

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• heavy
• boring
• uninteresting
• tedious
• tiresome
• wearisome
• weary
• pedestrian
• tiring
• flat
• monotonous
• dull
• drab
• humdrum
• leaden
• ponderous
• dreary
• stuffy
• stodgy
• wearying
• unpleasant
• unwelcome
• jading
• disagreeable
• distasteful
• uncongenial
• displeasing
• pleasureless
• unpleasing
• unlovely

diverting

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verb

present participle of divert

1

as in entertaining

to cause (someone) to pass the time agreeably occupied

a light comedy to divert the tired business executive

Synonyms & Similar Words

• amusing
• entertaining
• regaling
• distracting
• occupying
• delighting
• appeasing
• interesting
• solacing
• involving
• disporting
• pleasing
• busying
• consoling
• engaging
• engrossing
• immersing
• captivating
• charming
• enchanting
• absorbing
• comforting
• intriguing
• humoring
• fascinating
• hypnotizing
• bewitching
• mesmerizing
• indulging
• contenting
• placating
• gratifying
• spoiling
• soothing
• pacifying
• beguiling
• gripping
• propitiating
• pleasuring
• pampering
• mollifying
• obliging
• conciliating
• coddling
• enthralling
• mollycoddling

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• boring
• draining
• wearing
• exhausting
• tiring
• enervating
• wearying
• wearing out
• jading
• harassing
• fatiguing
• perturbing
• aggravating
• upsetting
• pestering
• disturbing
• bothering
• annoying
• harrying
• exasperating
• bugging
• vexing
• fretting
• grating
• galling
• chafing
• nettling
• piquing
• irking
• peeving

2

as in turning

to change the course or direction of (something)

the bike race was diverted around the construction zone

Synonyms & Similar Words

• turning
• swinging
• whipping
• redirecting
• deflecting
• shifting
• veering
• moving
• wheeling
• whirling
• shunting
• switching
• averting
• deviating
• transferring
• twisting
• sidetracking
• swiveling
• zigzagging
• rechanneling
• swerving
• curving
• swivelling
• reversing
• swaying
• bending
• turning back

3

as in distracting

to draw the attention or mind to something else

trying to divert the child with a toy while the doctor was giving her a shot

Synonyms & Similar Words

• distracting
• detracting
• abstracting
• throwing off
• amusing
• entertaining
• straying
• wandering
• calling off
• beguiling

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• focusing
• concentrating
• focussing