ENTERTAINED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does entertained mean? 

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

1. pleasantly occupied

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• ENTERTAINED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Pleasantly occupied

Synonyms:

amused; diverted; entertained

Context example:

We are not amused

Similar:

pleased (experiencing or manifesting pleasure)

 Context examples 

But, once there, it remained there; and hardened into a purpose than which I have never entertained a more determined purpose in my life.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

To be fond of dancing was a certain step towards falling in love; and very lively hopes of Mr. Bingley's heart were entertained.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

The cub entertained a great respect for his mother.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

If I understand you rightly, you had formed a surmise of such horror as I have hardly words to—Dear Miss Morland, consider the dreadful nature of the suspicions you have entertained.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

Thus occupied, and mutually entertained, days passed like hours, and weeks like days.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

The feelings of kindness and gentleness which I had entertained but a few moments before gave place to hellish rage and gnashing of teeth.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

He was well entertained, and in the evening was taken to the chamber next to the one where the princesses lay in their twelve beds.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

In the school of political projectors, I was but ill entertained; the professors appearing, in my judgment, wholly out of their senses, which is a scene that never fails to make me melancholy.

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

Few persons ever meet the fairy princes they dream about; but Maria, who worked hard and whose head was hard, never dreaming about fairy princes, entertained hers in the guise of an ex-laundryman.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

“You seemed to enjoy your drive here very much this morning. I was glad to see you so well entertained. You and Julia were laughing the whole way.”

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)