ENTERTAINING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does entertaining mean? 

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

1. agreeably diverting

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• ENTERTAINING (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Agreeably diverting

Context example:

films should be entertaining

Similar:

interesting (arousing or holding the attention)

 Context examples 

But, he intimated that when she came home he should hope to have the pleasure of entertaining me.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Fred is very entertaining, and is altogether the most agreeable young man I ever knew—except Laurie, whose manners are more charming.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

“Your experience has been a most entertaining one,” remarked Holmes as his client paused and refreshed his memory with a huge pinch of snuff.

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

It is not like Udolpho at all; but yet I think it is very entertaining.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

No matter what you choose to do, friends will be impressed by your stylish entertaining—you have a remarkable ability to set a beautiful mood.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

But sometimes of an evening, before we went to cards, he would read something aloud out of the Elegant Extracts, very entertaining.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

Oh dear, yes! very entertaining indeed.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

However, the event showed me I was a fool for entertaining a sense even of surprise.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Ruth's two girl-cousins were visiting her from San Rafael, and Mrs. Morse, under pretext of entertaining them, was pursuing her plan of surrounding Ruth with young people.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

When I found myself on my feet, I looked about me, and must confess I never beheld a more entertaining prospect.

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