DIVERTED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does diverted mean? 

• DIVERTED (adjective)
  The adjective DIVERTED has 1 sense:

1. pleasantly occupied

  Familiarity information: DIVERTED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DIVERTED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Pleasantly occupied

Synonyms:

amused; diverted; entertained

Context example:

We are not amused

Similar:

pleased (experiencing or manifesting pleasure)

 Context examples 

That she would never waver in it, never be diverted from it, never relinquish it, while there was any chance of hope.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

How angry and how diverted he would be!

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

Five attempts have been made. Twice burglars in my pay ransacked her house. Once we diverted her luggage when she travelled. Twice she has been waylaid. There has been no result.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The studied indifference, insolence, and discontent of her husband gave her no pain; and when he scolded or abused her, she was highly diverted.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

Elizabeth tried to be diverted by them; but all sense of pleasure was lost in shame.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

I was diverted with none so much as that of the rope-dancers, performed upon a slender white thread, extended about two feet, and twelve inches from the ground.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

The bright clouds form when the flow of ambient air is perturbed and diverted upward over the dark vortex, causing gases to freeze into methane ice crystals.

(Hubble Reveals Dynamic Atmospheres of Uranus, Neptune, NASA)

When ATP supplies are abundant, the acetyl-CoA can be diverted to other purposes like energy storage in the form of fatty acids.

(Acetyl Group Shuttle Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)

In some degree, also, they diverted my mind from the thoughts over which it had brooded for the last month.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

The bright clouds form when the flow of ambient air is perturbed and diverted upward over the dark vortex, causing gases to likely freeze into methane ice crystals.

(Hubble Imagery Confirms New Dark Spot on Neptune, NASA)