interesting
Usage
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Something that is interesting occupies the mind with no connotation of pleasure or displeasure: an interesting account of a battle. Something that is pleasing engages the mind favorably: a pleasing account of the wedding. Something that is gratifying fulfills expectations, requirements, etc.: a gratifying account of his whereabouts; a book gratifying in its detail.
Example Sentences
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It will be interesting to see if they all turn up at the party's Extraordinary General Meeting on Saturday, or if they do how many will be prepared to give public endorsements.
From BBC
“It’s more interesting to write about something I’m torn about,” Shriver told me.
It’s a really interesting feeling because obviously it’s been so long, something that I thought I was done with, in a way, so it feels good.
From Los Angeles Times
Yet this novel is more interesting when it explores the freakier aspects of the alien’s presence: Every evening at around the same time, local oldsters with dementia become briefly lucid.
Her big toenail had turned an interesting green-black and fallen off.
From Literature
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.