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entertaining

adjective

Synonyms and Antonyms of entertaining

providing amusement or enjoyment

a list of entertaining things to do on a snow day

Synonyms of entertaining

amusing, delightful, diverting, enjoyable, fun, pleasurable

Words Related to entertaining

agreeable, beguiling, nice, pleasant, satisfying, welcome

antic, comic, comical, droll, farcical, funny, hilarious, humorous, laughable, ludicrous, ridiculous, riotous, risible, sidesplitting, uproarious

blithesome, gay, gleeful, happy, jocose, jocund, jolly, jovial, merry, mirthful, sunny

exciting, stimulating, thrilling

Near Antonyms of entertaining

disagreeable, displeasing, distasteful, uncongenial, unlovely, unpleasant, unpleasing, unwelcome

Antonyms of entertaining

boring, drab, dreary, dull, flat, heavy, humdrum, jading, leaden, monotonous, pedestrian, pleasureless, ponderous, stodgy, stuffy, tedious, tiresome, tiring, uninteresting, wearisome, weary, wearying

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