Crossword clues for amused
amused
- Kept from frowning
- Got a chuckle out of
- What Queen Victoria famously was not
- Tickled, so to speak
- Tickled one's fancy
- Tickled fancy of
- SPREAD THE JOY
- Smiling, maybe
- Provided the entertainment for
- Pleasantly occupied
- Pleasantly diverted
- Played the card well
- Medusa (anag)
- Like a comedian's audience, hopefully
- Got a smile out of
- Got a laugh out of
- Got a laugh from
- Got a grin out of
- Good for a laugh?
- Finding it funny
- Exhibiting a smirk, perhaps
- Enjoying a comedy
- Coaxed a laugh from
- Caused to laugh
- "We are not ___."
- Smiling, evidently
- "We are not___"
- Smiling, for now
- Having a laugh
- "We are not ___": Queen Victoria
- Made smile
- Occupied pleasingly
- Tickled pink
- "We are not ___": Victoria
- Pleasingly diverted
- Diverted
- Agreeably occupied
- Entertained
- Gave pleasure to
- Victoria wasn't a married American journalist
- A thought entertained
- Pleased one gets bit of mint? Not mint
- Two versions of American edition entertained
- Tickled American doctor having internal operation
- Brought a smile to
- Kept occupied
- Kept entertained
- Caused to chuckle
- Smiling, perhaps
- Made one laugh
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Amuse \A*muse"\ ([.a]*m[=u]z"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Amused ([.a]*m[=u]zd"); p. pr. & vb. n. Amusing.] [F. amuser to make stay, to detain, to amuse, [`a] (L. ad) + OF. muser. See Muse, v.]
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To occupy or engage the attention of; to lose in deep thought; to absorb; also, to distract; to bewilder. [Obs.]
Camillus set upon the Gauls when they were amused in receiving their gold.
--Holland.Being amused with grief, fear, and fright, he could not find the house.
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To entertain or occupy in a pleasant manner; to stir with pleasing or mirthful emotions; to divert.
A group of children amusing themselves with pushing stones from the top [of the cliff], and watching as they plunged into the lake.
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To keep in expectation; to beguile; to delude.
He amused his followers with idle promises.
--Johnson.Syn: To entertain; gratify; please; divert; beguile; deceive; occupy.
Usage: To Amuse, Divert, Entertain. We are amused by that which occupies us lightly and pleasantly. We are entertained by that which brings our minds into agreeable contact with others, as conversation, or a book. We are diverted by that which turns off our thoughts to something of livelier interest, especially of a sportive nature, as a humorous story, or a laughable incident.
Whatever amuses serves to kill time, to lull the faculties, and to banish reflection. Whatever entertains usually awakens the understanding or gratifies the fancy. Whatever diverts is lively in its nature, and sometimes tumultuous in its effects.
--Crabb.
Amused \A*mused"\, a.
Diverted.
Expressing amusement; as, an amused look.
Wiktionary
1 Pleasurably entertained. 2 Displaying amusement. 3 (context usually with a complement English) Enjoying humor aspects (of something). v
(en-past of: amuse)
WordNet
adj. pleasantly occupied; "We are not amused" -Queen Victoria [syn: diverted, entertained]
Usage examples of "amused".
He amused me with the enumeration of all her adorable qualities, and of all the cruelties she was practising upon him, for, although she received him at all hours, she repulsed him harshly whenever he tried to steal the slightest favour.
The Admiral, who had previously amused himself by giving an alarming description of this ceremony, now very courteously exempted his guests from the inconvenience and ridicule attending it.
It does not, I should suppose, lie in the way of The Century, whose general audience on both sides of the Atlantic takes only an amused interest in this singular revival of a traditional literary animosity--an anachronism in these tolerant days when the reading world cares less and less about the origin of literature that pleases it--it does not lie in the way of The Century to do more than report this phenomenal literary effervescence.
He was amused to find, when he finished, that the portrait resembled the one he had done of himself in Arles, before Gauguin arrived.
The askew dimple gave his face an amused look, in spite of the fact that his eyes were black with anger.
If empire had amused him as athleticism did there would have been no equal in all history to Commodus.
Madame la Riviere, who received them in a thoroughly professional spirit, and I was inwardly amused and felt that her axiom was a true one.
I could not now refuse, and I began a story which amused and interested the general and his friends for an hour or so, but which was from beginning to end the work of my imagination.
As soon as we rose from table he begged me to begin my story, and for two hours I had the pleasure of keeping this most brilliant company amused.
I myself could not take her about, and as I wanted her to be amused I begged my kind old landlord to send her to the play every day, and to prepare a good supper every evening.
While they amused themselves with this sort of conversation, the physician returned with the coach, and accompanied them back to their inn, where he left them to their repose, after having promised to call again at noon, and conduct Renaldo to the house of Madam Clement, the benefactress of Monimia, to whom he eagerly desired to be introduced.
Mavin, preparing herself in the back room at Birders House, would have been amused.
She shaded her eyes and looked up and saw the moon hanging in the pure summer blueness, a wan face blankly amused by their silliness.
There was among them a Provencal who amused everybody with his boasting and with the recital of the military exploits by which he pretended to have distinguished himself in the service of several countries, and principally in Spain.
He noticed, as if in a dream, that the Lieutenants Apteno and Boxen were not amused.