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Amusing vs Cheering - What's the difference?

amusing | cheering | Synonyms |

As verbs the difference between amusing and cheering

is that amusing is present participle of lang=en while cheering is present participle of lang=en.

As an adjective amusing

is entertaining.

As a noun cheering is

a cheer.

amusing

English

Verb

(head)

    • 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

    cheering

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • A cheer.
  • * 1814 , The Gentleman's Magazine (volume 84, part 1, page 689)
    • The ships' yards were all fully manned, and the loud cheerings of the crews, and of the countless company in the surrounding boats, emulated the roar of the cannon.

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