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divertingadjective providing amusement or enjoymentsome tall and diverting tales were told by the festival's roving storyteller amusing, delightful, enjoyable, entertaining, fun, pleasurable agreeable, beguiling, nice, pleasant, satisfying, welcomerecreationalantic, comic, comical, droll, farcical, funny, hilarious, humorous, laughable, ludicrous, ridiculous, riotous, risible, sidesplitting, uproariousblithesome, gay, gleeful, happy, jocose, jocund, jolly, jovial, merry, mirthful, sunnyexciting, stimulating, thrilling boring, drab, dreary, dull, flat, heavy, humdrum, jading, leaden, monotonous, pedestrian, pleasureless, ponderous, stodgy, stuffy, tedious, tiresome, tiring, uninteresting, wearisome, weary, wearying disagreeable, displeasing, distasteful, uncongenial, unlovely, unpleasant, unpleasing, unwelcome divertingverbpresent participle of divertto cause (someone) to pass the time agreeably occupieda light comedy to divert the tired business executive amusing, disporting, entertaining, regaling, solacing absorbing, busying, distracting, engaging, engrossing, immersing, interesting, involving, occupyingbeguiling, bewitching, captivating, charming, delighting, enchanting, enthralling, fascinatinggripping, hypnotizing, intriguing, mesmerizingcoddling, gratifying, humoring, indulging, mollycoddling, pampering, pleasing, pleasuring, spoilingappeasing, comforting, conciliating, consoling, contenting, mollifying, obliging, pacifying, placating, propitiating, soothing boring, jadingdraining, enervating, exhausting, fatiguing, tiring, wearing, wearing out, wearyingaggravating, annoying, bothering, bugging, chafing, disturbing, exasperating, fretting, galling, grating, harassing, harrying, irking, nettling, peeving, perturbing, pestering, piquing, upsetting, vexing to change the course or direction of (something)the bike race was diverted around the construction zone deflecting, redirecting, swinging, turning, veering, wheeling, whipping averting, deviating, moving, rechanneling, shifting, shunting, sidetracking, swerving, switching, transferringswiveling(or swivelling), twisting, whirling, zigzaggingbending, curving, swayingreversing, turning back to draw the attention or mind to something elsetrying to divert the child with a toy while the doctor was giving her a shot abstracting, calling off, detracting, distracting, throwing off amusing, beguiling, entertainingstraying, wandering concentrating, focusing(also focussing) in 1655 |