interesting
Pronunciation Adjective
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Pronunciation Adjective
interesting
- (sometimes ironic) Arousing or holding the attention or interest#Noun|interest of someone.
- (non-ironic) 2015-11-22, Stan Lee, "Marvel's Stan Lee: 'I'd never really thought of doing comics for a living.'", The Guardian
- I'd never really thought of doing comics for a living. I read other things — novels, plays, everything. One day I heard about an opening in a publishing company. I found out the company, among other things, published comics, and that's where the opening was. So I sort of fell into it. Comics were just another form of entertainment to me, but it got to be more and more interesting every day.
- (ironic) 1991, Stephen Fry, The Liar, p. 26:
- ...Sampson told Adrian why he thought Mahler was in actual fact wilder, in the sense of more controlled, than any rock group.
‘That's an interesting point’ said Adrian, ‘in the sense of not being interesting at all.’
- ...Sampson told Adrian why he thought Mahler was in actual fact wilder, in the sense of more controlled, than any rock group.
- (non-ironic) 2015-11-22, Stan Lee, "Marvel's Stan Lee: 'I'd never really thought of doing comics for a living.'", The Guardian
- (euphemistic) strange or unusual, in a negative sense.
- The stew had an interesting flavor.
- French: intéressant
- German: interessant, reizvoll
- Italian: interessante
- Portuguese: interessante
- Russian: интере́сный
- Spanish: interesante
- present participle of interest#English|interest
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