ENGAGING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does engaging mean? 

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

1. attracting or delighting

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• ENGAGING (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Attracting or delighting

Synonyms:

engaging; piquant

Context example:

a piquant face with large appealing eyes

Similar:

attractive (pleasing to the eye or mind especially through beauty or charm)

 Context examples 

Emma had never seen her look so well, so lovely, so engaging.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

Is your profession really so engaging and interesting as to absorb your whole attention?

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

He is a truly excellent young man, and we could not refuse to listen to him, but I will not consent to Meg's engaging herself so young.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

She was dressed in mourning, and her countenance, always engaging, was rendered, by the solemnity of her feelings, exquisitely beautiful.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

He was shy, and disposed to abstraction; but the engaging mildness of her countenance, and gentleness of her manners, soon had their effect; and Anne was well repaid the first trouble of exertion.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

Marianne got up the next morning at her usual time; to every inquiry replied that she was better, and tried to prove herself so, by engaging in her accustomary employments.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

I am perfectly satisfied, from what his manners now are, that he never had any design of engaging my affection.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

A recombinant T-cell engaging bispecific monoclonal antibody (BiTE) directed against human prostate specific membrane antigen (PSMA) and the CD3 epsilon subunit of the T cell receptor complex, with potential immunostimulating and antineoplastic activities.

(Anti-PSMA/CD3 BiTE Monoclonal Antibody MT112, NCI Thesaurus)

The class II-associated invariant chain peptide (CLIP) region (residues 81-104) of Ii is believed to mediate this inhibition by engaging the binding domain of class II like an antigenic peptide.

(Antigen Presentation Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)

Her own musings were brought to an end on perceiving Mr. Crawford before her, and her thoughts were put into another channel by his engaging her almost instantly for the first two dances.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)