interesting

comparative more interesting · superlative most interesting

1. Arousing or holding the attention or interest of someone.

   Cricket is not interesting to watch.

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   Comics were just another form of entertainment to me, but it got to be more and more interesting every day.

   2015-11-22, Stan Lee, "Marvel's Stan Lee: 'I'd never really thought of doing comics for a living.'", The Guardian

   Synonyms: compelling, gripping, absorbing · Antonyms: boring, soggy, uninteresting

2. euphemisticPregnant. (used with situation and condition)First known use 18th c.

   I’m afraid I seem to make heavy weather of my interesting condition.

   1928, William Babington Maxwell, “Part II. Enid”, in We Forget Because We Must, A Story of Decades and Lustres, 1st edition, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Doran and Co., published 1928, →OCLC, page 45

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   I found myself in a fair way of being a mother; and that I might be near my own relations, in such an interesting situation, I and my dear companion departed from H—n, not without great reluctance […].

   1751, [Tobias] Smollett, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle […], volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), London: Harrison and Co., […], →OCLC

   Mrs Lenville (who, as has been before hinted, was in an interesting state) rushed from the rear rank of ladies, and uttering a piercing scream threw herself upon the body.

   1838 March – 1839 October, Charles Dickens, The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1839, →OCLC

3. obsoleteOf concern; affecting, important.

   He indeed had good reason to be offended; for though Dr. Swinfen's motive was good, he inconsiderately betrayed a matter deeply interesting and of great delicacy, which had been entrusted to him in conference […].

   1791, James Boswell, 9th Laird of Auchinleck, edited by Robert William Chapman, Life of Samuel Johnson, Oxford University Press, published 2008, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 48

1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of interest