What does engaging mean?

Definitions for engaging
ɛnˈgeɪ dʒɪŋen·gag·ing

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. engaging, piquantadjective

    attracting or delighting

    "an engaging frankness"; "a piquant face with large appealing eyes"

Wiktionary

  1. engagingadjective

    That engages the attention; engrossing, interesting; enthralling.

    I found the first of the Harry Potter books a very engaging read.

  2. engagingadjective

    Charming; attractive, especially of a manner or behaviour.

    Beauty, of course, and a bright, engaging personality or at least the ability to fake one are prerequisites for entering the Miss World competition.

ChatGPT

  1. engaging

    Engaging refers to captivating or getting someone involved or interested in a particular activity or subject. It often involves something that is compelling, appealing or evoking a positive emotional response that maintains or stimulates an individual's attention or interest.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Engaging

    of Encage

  2. Engaging

    of Engage

  3. Engagingadjective

    tending to draw the attention or affections; attractive; as, engaging manners or address

Freebase

  1. Engaging

    Winning; attractive; pleasing.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of engaging in Chaldean Numerology is: 8

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of engaging in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

Examples of engaging in a Sentence

  1. H. L. Mencken:

    The truth is that the average schoolmaster, on all the lower levels, is and always must be essentially and next door to an idiot, for how can one imagine an intelligent man engaging in so puerile an avocation?

  2. Dick Cheney, KCI Expo Center, June 1 2004:

    This nation will never go back to the false comforts of the world before 911. We are engaging the enemy as we must, in places like Iraq and Afghanistan, so we will not have to face them here at home.

  3. Ellis Peters:

    Nothing is more pleasing and engaging than the sense of having conferred benefits. Not even the gratification of receiving them.

  4. Melissa Weinberg:

    I think it's interesting that, in today's day and age everybody's sort of walking around with headphones in their ears and not engaging with others, yet there's a clear difference between listening to music in isolation, versus listening to music with others or engaging with music.

  5. Jeremy Hunt:

    We can only have that debate if our frontrunner in this campaign is a little bit braver in terms of getting out into the media, engaging in debates, engaging in the TV debate, if you want to be prime minister of the United Kingdom, you have to get out there and make your case. What would Churchill say if somebody who wants to be prime minister of the United Kingdom was hiding away from the media, not taking part in these big occasions.

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