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.

Adjective

(en adjective)

Too implausible to be credible; beyond belief; unbelievable.

* 1980 September 16, (w), quoted in William A. Schwartz et al., The Nuclear Seduction: Why the Arms Race Doesn’t Matter—And What Does , University of California Press (1990, 1993), ISBN 0-520-06134-9, page 29:

I get lost in what is credible and not credible. This whole thing gets so incredible when you consider wiping out whole nations, it is difficult to establish credibility.

* 2009 , (Diarmaid MacCulloch), A History of Christianity , Penguin 2010, page 796:

He therefore found revealed religion incredible in a literal sense, and, as Bayle had done before him, he radically separated morality from the practice of organized religion.

Amazing; astonishing; awe-inspiring.

He was so wrapped up in watching the incredible special effects that he couldn't keep track of the story.

Marvelous; profoundly affecting; wonderful.

I had such an incredible slice of pizza last night that I simply can't think about anything else.