AMUSED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does amused mean? 

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

1. pleasantly occupied

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• AMUSED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Pleasantly occupied

Synonyms:

amused; diverted; entertained

Context example:

We are not amused

Similar:

pleased (experiencing or manifesting pleasure)

 Context examples 

For some time the two men amused themselves with watching the movement of vague forms on the edge of the firelight.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

I flatter myself I'm a 'gentleman growed' as Peggotty said of David, and when you see Amy, you'll find her rather a precocious infant, said Laurie, looking amused at her maternal air.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

He told her, good-naturedly, that she was young and ought to be amused and entertained, and must not allow herself to be made dull by a dull old fellow.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

I felt quite amused at his unwarranted choler, and while he stumped indignantly up and down I fell to dwelling upon the romance of the fog.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

I tried to keep her amused and interested.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Elizabeth took up some needlework, and was sufficiently amused in attending to what passed between Darcy and his companion.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

There were things, however, in the magazines that amused him.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

She ate a hearty breakfast, and watched a wee Munchkin baby, who played with Toto and pulled his tail and crowed and laughed in a way that greatly amused Dorothy.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

And you, my friend, would be far more amused with the journal of Clerval, who observed the scenery with an eye of feeling and delight, than in listening to my reflections.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

He glanced around as he spoke with the half-amused look which he had worn during the whole proceedings.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)