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Amusing vs Antic - What's the difference?

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Amusing is a related term of antic.


As adjectives the difference between amusing and antic

is that amusing is entertaining while antic is ancient.

As a verb amusing

is .

amusing

English

Verb

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    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Entertaining.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
    • , chapter=5 citation , passage=‘It's rather like a beautiful Inverness cloak one has inherited. Much too good to hide away, so one wears it instead of an overcoat and pretends it's an amusing new fashion.’}}
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2012-12-21
    • , author=George Monbiot, authorlink=George Monbiot , title=Your gift at Christmas will soon be junk , volume=188, issue=2, page=24 , date=2012-12-10 , magazine= citation , passage=They seem amusing on the first day of Christmas, daft on the second, embarrassing on the third. By the twelfth they're in landfill. For 30 seconds of dubious entertainment, or a hedonic stimulus that lasts no longer than a nicotine hit, we commission the use of materials whose impacts will ramify for generations.}}
  • Funny, hilarious.

    • Synonyms

    * See also * See also

    Antonyms

    * unamusing

    Derived terms

    * amusingness

    antic

    English

    Alternative forms

    * antick

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (architecture, arts) Grotesque, incongruous.
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  • Grotesque, bizarre; absurd.
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    • Related terms

    * ancient * antiquary * antiquarian * antiquated * antique * antiquity

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (architecture, arts, obsolete) A grotesque representation of a figure; a gargoyle.
  • A caricature.
  • (often in plural) A ludicrous gesture or act; ridiculous behaviour.
  • * Wordsworth
    • And fraught with antics as the Indian bird / That writhes and chatters in her wiry cage.
  • * 1953 , John Christopher, Blemish
    • I saw the barren horror of your people's leisure with the million entertained by the antics of a tiny few
  • * 2007 , , Time To Add A Cute Kid To The Cast Questionable Content Number 951
    • Pintsize: Wait, don’t you want to know why I’m tied up and hanging from the ceiling? / Faye: Not really. Nighty night! / Pintsize: Shit! My wacky antics have jumped the shark!
  • A grotesque performer or clown.
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  • A pose, often exaggerated, in anticipation of an action; for example, a brief squat before jumping

    • Verb

  • To perform antics.
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  • (obsolete) To make a fool of, to cause to look ridiculous.
  • * , Act II, Scene VII:
    • Gentle lords, let's part; / You see we have burnt our cheeks: strong Enobarb / Is weaker than the wine; and mine own tongue / Splits what it speaks: the wild disguise hath almost / Antick'd us all.
  • (rare) To perform (an action) as an antic; to mimic ridiculously.
  • * 1931 , William Faulkner, Sanctuary , Vintage 1993, page 70:
    • She unfastened her dress, her arms arched thin and high, her shadow anticking her movements.
  • To make appear like a buffoon.
    • (Shakespeare)

    References

    * OED 2nd edition 1989 * *

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