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Synonyms for interesting
ˈɪn tər ə stɪŋ, -trə stɪŋ, -təˌrɛs tɪŋin·ter·est·ing
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Wiktionary
interestingadjective
Synonyms:
absorbingAntonyms:
boring, uninterestinginterestingadjective
Arousing or holding the attention or interest of someone.
Synonyms:
absorbingAntonyms:
uninteresting, boring
Princeton's WordNet
interestingadjective
arousing or holding the attention
Antonyms:
irksome, soporific, ho-hum, wearisome, ponderous, tiresome, insipid, putdownable, soporiferous, prosaic, pedestrian, deadening, slow, boring, jejune, tedious, prosy, narcotic, dull, uninteresting, earthbound
Editors Contribution
captivating
capable of holding interest; fascinating; appealing
his captivating green eyes grabbed ahold of me and seemed to never let go.
Dictionary of English Synonymes
interestingadjective
Synonyms:
engaging, attractive, pleasing, entertaining
PPDB, the paraphrase database
List of paraphrases for "interesting":
exciting, attractive, worthwhile, lnteresting, interest, fascinating, intriguing, interested, valuable, useful, meaningful, noteworthy, curious, hot-button, appealing, affecting
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Interesting
Interested vs. Interesting -- In this Grammar.com article you will learn the differences between the words Interested and Interesting.
Words popularity by usage frequency
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#653 | interest | |
#1412 | useful | |
#1616 | interested | |
#1748 | interesting | |
#4080 | valuable | |
#4180 | exciting | |
#5461 | attractive | |
#7013 | curious | |
#7014 | affecting | |
#8204 | meaningful | |
#9253 | fascinating | |
#12615 | appealing | |
#13862 | worthwhile | |
#16174 | intriguing | |
#18643 | noteworthy | |
#19926 | absorbing |
How to use interesting in a sentence?
It was an interesting experience being metropolitan editor of the Times , in precisely the same way as being simmered in a saucepan for a few years is terribly interesting.
Every man has his follies -- and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
I find pictures of people more interesting than anything else, the people at these car shows I just thought (were) really, really interesting and cool-looking, and so I wanted to capture that. Also, it was something that nobody else was doing. You know, there were a bunch of people taking pictures of the cars, but there was nobody who was really documenting the people and the culture in the way that I ended up doing.
The misery of a child is interesting to a mother, the misery of a young man is interesting to a young woman, the misery of an old man is interesting to nobody.
They say the bad guys are more interesting to play but there is more to it than that - playing the good guys is more challenging because it's harder to make them interesting.
Translations for interesting
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- مُشَوِّقArabic
- maraqlıAzerbaijani
- ціка́выBelarusian
- интере́сенBulgarian
- interessantCatalan, Valencian
- zajímavýCzech
- diddorolWelsh
- interessantDanish
- interessantGerman
- ενδιαφέρωνGreek
- interesaEsperanto
- interesanteSpanish
- huvitavEstonian
- جالبPersian
- mielenkiintoinen, kiinnostava, kiintoisaFinnish
- intéressantFrench
- nijsgjirrichWestern Frisian
- spéisiúil, suimiúilIrish
- inntinneachScottish Gaelic
- interesanteGalician
- מענייןHebrew
- रोचक, दिलचस्पHindi
- érdekesHungarian
- հետաքրքիրArmenian
- interessanteInterlingua
- interesantaIdo
- athyglisverðurIcelandic
- interessanteItalian
- 面白いJapanese
- საინტერესოGeorgian
- 흥미롭다, 흥미로운Korean
- įdomusLithuanian
- интересен, за́нимливMacedonian
- interessant, belangwekkendDutch
- interessantNorwegian
- interessantOccitan
- ciekawy, interesującyPolish
- interessantePortuguese
- interesantRomanian
- заня́тный, интере́сныйRussian
- रोचकSanskrit
- zanimljiv, интересантан, interesantan, занимљивSerbo-Croatian
- zaujímavýSlovak
- zanimivSlovene
- interesantAlbanian
- intressantSwedish
- ఆసక్తికరమైనTelugu
- ilginç, enteresanTurkish
- ціка́вийUkrainian
- روچک, دلچسپUrdu
- nitedikVolapük
- טשיקאַווע, אינטערעסאַנטYiddish
- 有Chinese
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