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Definitions for interesting
ˈɪn tər ə stɪŋ, -trə stɪŋ, -təˌrɛs tɪŋin·ter·est·ing

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. interestingadjective

    arousing or holding the attention

Wiktionary

  1. interestingadjective

    Arousing or holding the attention or interest of someone.

Wikipedia

  1. interesting

    Interest is a feeling or emotion that causes attention to focus on an object, event, or process. In contemporary psychology of interest, the term is used as a general concept that may encompass other more specific psychological terms, such as curiosity and to a much lesser degree surprise.The emotion of interest does have its own facial expression, of which the most prominent component is having dilated pupils.

ChatGPT

  1. interesting

    Interesting refers to something or someone that arouses curiosity or captures the attention, due to its unique, unusual, or fascinating qualities. It is often associated with novelty, creativity, unpredictability, complexity, or personal relevance that makes the subject appealing or captivating.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Interesting

    of Interest

  2. Interestingadjective

    engaging the attention; exciting, or adapted to excite, interest, curiosity, or emotion; as, an interesting story; interesting news

Wikidata

  1. Interesting

    "Interesting" was the fifth episode of British sitcom The Young Ones. It was written by Ben Elton, Rik Mayall and Lise Mayer, and directed by Paul Jackson. It was first broadcast on BBC2 on 7 December 1982.

The New Hacker's Dictionary

  1. interesting

    In hacker parlance, this word has strong connotations of ‘annoying’, or ‘difficult’, or both. Hackers relish a challenge, and enjoy wringing all the irony possible out of the ancient Chinese curse “May you live in interesting times”. Oppose trivial, uninteresting.

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  1. Interesting

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British National Corpus

  1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'interesting' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #1182

  2. Written Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'interesting' in Written Corpus Frequency: #592

  3. Adjectives Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'interesting' in Adjectives Frequency: #126

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of interesting in Chaldean Numerology is: 2

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of interesting in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

Examples of interesting in a Sentence

  1. Yusuke Hasegawa:

    We have some consideration but so far we have no plans to join Formula E. Formula E is not very popular yet, as a technical point of view, it is interesting but from a racing point of view it is not attractive yet.

  2. Isabella Rossellini:

    Especially in American cinema, you foster an audience of young males, if you foster an audience for subjects that are interesting to women then you also have an audience that is interested in these subjects. A lot of films where people punch each other... I'm not interested.

  3. James Comey:

    It's going to be interesting to see the direction that the president takes now.

  4. Actor Ethan Hawke:

    They were always popular, i learned about music through movies ... I think people love music and music is really close to our hearts and when you can get behind it ... behind what you love, there's something interesting. Movies can do that.

  5. Phil Flynn:

    It's a very bearish report and plays into the mantra of supply glut and it will be interesting to see if the price can test the lows in the $53 area as the year comes to a close.

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