Definitions for engaging

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engaging en·gag·ing

Spelling: [en-gey-jing]

IPA: /ɛnˈgeɪ dʒɪŋ/

Engaging is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 79 anagrams from letters in engaging (aeggginn).

Definitions for engaging

adjective

1. winning; attractive; pleasing:

verb (used with object)

1. to occupy the attention or efforts of (a person or persons):
2. to secure for aid, employment, use, etc.; hire:
3. to attract and hold fast:
4. to attract or please:
5. to bind, as by pledge, promise, contract, or oath; make liable:
6. to betroth (usually used in the passive):
7. to bring (troops) into conflict; enter into conflict with:
8. Mechanics. to cause (gears or the like) to become interlocked; interlock with.
9. to attach or secure.
10. Obsolete. to entangle or involve.

verb (used without object)

1. to occupy oneself; become involved:
2. to take employment:
3. to pledge one's word; assume an obligation:
4. to cross weapons; enter into conflict:
5. Mechanics. (of gears or the like) to interlock.

Origin of engaging

First recorded in 1665-75; engage + -ing²

Examples for engaging

I like a good story, and so I want to make sure that this character is engaging.

The engaging little town is indeed one of nature's sanatoriums.

Chatty, engaging and knowledgeable, cabbies in Hong Kong are also avid listeners of discussion programs on local radio.

Yet despite his engaging irascibility, Mamoon never quite emerges as a character in his own right.

She was, unusually for a comedian, as funny and engaging off stage as on.

He has been in Parliament some time, you know,' returned the engaging young Barnacle.

What should the protocol be for engaging people on the street who offer unsolicited “compliments?”

In spite of its pretty entourage, too, the town is not engaging.

"If I walk with you, they'll know I'm not engaged to Joe," she said, with engaging directness.

The bosom received this tribute in its most engaging manner.