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Definitions

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. adj. Arousing or holding the attention; absorbing.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. Exciting or adapted to excite interest; engaging the attention or curiosity: as, an interesting story.

Wiktionary

  1. adj. Arousing or holding the attention or interest of someone.
  2. v. present participle of interest.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. Engaging the attention; exciting, or adapted to excite, interest, curiosity, or emotion

WordNet 3.0

  1. adj. arousing or holding the attention

Etymologies

  1. interest +‎ -ing (Wiktionary)

Examples

  • “The main purpose which I have had in view in writing this book has been to present an account of Greek philosophy which, within strict limits of brevity, shall be at once authentic and interesting -- _authentic_, as being based on the original works themselves, and not on any secondary sources; _interesting_, as presenting to the ordinary English reader, in language freed as far as possible from technicality and abstruseness, the great thoughts of the greatest men of antiquity on questions of permanent significance and value.”

    A Short History of Greek Philosophy

  • “I think she’s done a great job leveraging interesting content over her good looks to create a show that is actually _interesting_ to watch, and isn’t just another blond chick using her beauty to attract viewers.”

    PopSnap: Sarah Meyers’ Live Online TV Show

  • “Not only are they likely to give me crap about my clothes or something equally as important they will use the word interesting to describe what Im wearing, and we all know that to most people, interesting is not a compliment, but I dont especially want to watch Jay with his hands practically up Amys shirt right there on the front lawn.”

    Simon & Schuster: The Fortunes of Indigo Skye

  • “Probably what most people think about when the term interesting bark is mentioned, the row of riverbirches along the wooden fence near the house has entered its peeling stage.”

    Bark « Fairegarden

  • “The term interesting traffic means that when traffic meeting a pre-determined type or load is seen by the router, it knows that an ISDN call is warranted to pass that traffic to its destination.”

    CertCities.com | IT Forums

  • “Book value of the company is $23.05 per share and of course I say that's somewhat, I think I used the term interesting, but also somewhat frustrating to us given where we're currently trading.”

    SeekingAlpha.com: Home Page

  • “What makes this interesting is the fact that the current production reserves are a few million barrels a day, largely from Saudi Arabia.”

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  • “They pointed to him in particular as going -- as coming back saying he wasn't going to do inspections, and then suddenly going out, doing some very -- what they call interesting inspections.”

    CNN Transcript Jan 18, 2003

  • “It depends what you call interesting," was his rejoinder to the unconventional reply.”

    Denzil Quarrier

  • “If you are a goose, cackling a great deal, silly at heart and wholly indifferent about to-morrow, you will choose just what you call the interesting titles.”

    How to Do It

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  • albertoprb Low intensity Oct 12, 2012

  • heather Testing 2 Mar 27, 2009

  • whichbe Sounds like: entrusting Jan 19, 2009

  • Prolagus "I'm not listening to you" in Fourceelian. Nov 2, 2008

  • devans00 (adj) Something which arouses no interest at all.

    From Urban Dictionary Jun 25, 2008

  • whichbe Ahahah, yes, this word is such the expressiveless filler word. May 12, 2008

  • kewpid It means a whole lot of nothing. May 12, 2008

  • mollydot Hoban 'Wash' Washburn: This landing is gonna get pretty interesting.
    Capt. Malcolm Reynolds: Define "interesting".
    Hoban 'Wash' Washburn: deadpan Oh God, oh God, we're all going to die?

    -Serenity, 2005 Dec 19, 2007

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‘interesting’ has been looked up 4214 times, added to 38 lists, commented on 8 times, and has a Scrabble score of 12.