Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Arousing or holding the attention; absorbing.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Exciting or adapted to excite interest; engaging the attention or curiosity: as, an interesting story.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Engaging the attention; exciting, or adapted to excite, interest, curiosity, or emotion
WordNet 3.0
- adj. arousing or holding the attention
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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“What makes this interesting is the fact that the current production reserves are a few million barrels a day, largely from Saudi Arabia.”
“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.”
“It depends what you call interesting," was his rejoinder to the unconventional reply.”
“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.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘interesting’.
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Mirrored Vowels
Rules:
• The word must have an even number of vowels.
• There must be four or more vowels; thus, at minimum, an A-A-A-A or A-B-B-A pattern.
• The vowels must appear in a mir...feminine, solicitor, caruncular, repackager, semiprimes, fetishises, decomposer, demonlover, recomposer, sepultures, lipotropic, colesterol and 385 more...
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Describing the Taste of Foods
yummy, zesty, piquant, pungent, sharp, spicy, poignant, delicious, ambrosial, appetizing, delectable, heavenly and 194 more...
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inter-
between or among; mutually
intercollegiate, interdependent, interactive, intervention, interdisciplinary, interesting, interpolate, interact, interchange, internal, intermolecular, international and 18 more...
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Devans00's Wonder Words
Words that catch my fancy. Make me wish I was clever enough to work them into conversation without upsetting people.
sweven, combat nap, junior moment, smithereens, requel, interesting, ityf, beerboarding, mouse potato, skimmington, destinesia, louche and 15 more...
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Say It Right
Words that people pronounce in ways I wouldn't pronounce them.
often, palm, clitoris, aunt, vasectomy, interesting, headache, ask, row, ignominy, antimony, ptisan and 2 more...
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Whedon
Words to do with Joss Whedon things, like Buffy, Firefly.
buffy, serenity, willow, interesting, faith, clem, captain tightpants

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