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Engaging vs Meeting - What's the difference?

engaging | meeting |

As verbs the difference between engaging and meeting

is that engaging is while meeting is .

As an adjective engaging

is that engages the attention; engrossing, interesting; enthralling.

As a noun meeting is

(uncountable) the action of the verb to meet .

engaging

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • That engages the attention; engrossing, interesting; enthralling.
  • I found the first of the Harry Potter books a very engaging read.
  • Charming; attractive, especially of a manner or behaviour.
  • Beauty, of course, and a bright, engaging personality — or at least the ability to fake one — are prerequisites for entering the Miss World competition.

    Derived terms

    * engagingness * unengaging

    Synonyms

    * (that engages the attention) absorbing, compelling, engrossing, enthralling, interesting * (charming) appealing, attractive, sweet

    Antonyms

    * (that engages the attention) boring, dull, unengaging, uninteresting * (charming) boorish, rude, uncivil, uncivilised

    Verb

    (head)
  • meeting

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • Noun

  • (uncountable) The action of the verb to meet .
  • A gathering of people/parties for a purpose.
  • We need to have a meeting about that soon.
  • The people at such a gathering, as a collective.
  • What has the meeting decided.
  • An encounter between people, even accidental.
  • They came together in a chance meeting on the way home from work.
  • A place or instance of junction or intersection.
  • Earthquakes occur at the meeting of tectonic plates.
  • A religious service held by a charismatic preacher in small towns in the United States.
  • *1939 , (John Steinbeck), (The Grapes of Wrath) , p. 20:
  • *:You use ta give a good meetin' . I recollect one time you give a whole sermon walkin' around on your hands, yellin' your head off.
  • Derived terms

    * meetinghouse * meeting of the minds * meeting place * meeting room * race meeting * Sunday-go-to-meeting

    Synonyms

    * assembly * convocation * gathering

    Descendants

    * Crimean Tatar: (l) (borrowed) * French: (l) (borrowed) * Russian: (borrowed) * Serbo-Croatian: (l)/ (borrowed) * Tagalog: (l) (borrowed)

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