DIVERTING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does diverting mean? 

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

1. providing enjoyment; pleasantly entertaining

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• DIVERTING (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Providing enjoyment; pleasantly entertaining

Synonyms:

amusing; amusive; diverting

Context example:

a diverting story

Similar:

interesting (arousing or holding the attention)

 Context examples 

We must feel that every addition to your father's society, among his equals or superiors, may be of use in diverting his thoughts from those who are beneath him.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

The ash plumes rose as high as 30,000 feet (9 kilometers) into the sky, diverting flights.

(NASA Shows New Tongan Island Made of Tuff Stuff, Likely to Persist Years, NASA)

This approach would also help keep carbon out of the atmosphere by diverting timber away from being burnt as fuel.

(Visualising heat flow in bamboo could help design more energy-efficient and fire-safe buildings, University of Cambridge)

Diverting a small percentage of a country’s fish catch into local communities would make a huge difference to nutrition, the study’s authors say.

(Fairer fish trade could fix nutrient deficiencies in coastal countries, SciDev.Net)

Thenceforward he doubled the pains he had been at to instruct me: he brought me into all company, and made them treat me with civility; because, as he told them, privately, this would put me into good humour, and make me more diverting.

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

To take what had been the gift of another person, of a brother too, impossible! it must not be! and with an eagerness and embarrassment quite diverting to her companion, she laid down the necklace again on its cotton, and seemed resolved either to take another or none at all.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

I had no idea how he employed his time in the interval, beyond a general knowledge that he was very popular in the place, and had twenty means of actively diverting himself where another man might not have found one.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

In the hope of diverting her father's thoughts from the disagreeableness of Mr. Knightley's going to London; and going so suddenly; and going on horseback, which she knew would be all very bad; Emma communicated her news of Jane Fairfax, and her dependence on the effect was justified; it supplied a very useful check,—interested, without disturbing him.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

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.

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

In this occupation she hoped, moreover, to bury some of the recollections of Mansfield, which were too apt to seize her mind if her fingers only were busy; and, especially at this time, hoped it might be useful in diverting her thoughts from pursuing Edmund to London, whither, on the authority of her aunt's last letter, she knew he was gone.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)