diverting

English

Adjective

diverting (comparative more diverting, superlative most diverting)

1. (dated) Amusing, distracting.
   • 1726 October 28, [Jonathan Swift], “Several Adventures that Happened to the Author. […]”, in Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. […] [Gulliver’s Travels], volume I, London: […] Benj[amin] Motte, […], →OCLC, part II (A Voyage to Brobdingnag), page 247:

     I was every day furniſhing the Court with ſome ridiculous Story; and Glumdalclitch, although ſhe loved me to Exceſs, yet was arch enough to inform the Queen, whenever I committed any Folly that ſhe thought would be diverting to her Majeſty.

Derived terms

• divertingly
• divertingness
• undiverting

 

Verb

diverting

1. present participle and gerund of divert

References

• “diverting, adj.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.