engaging

Meanings

Plural: engagings

Verb

• carry out or participate in an activity; be involved in
• consume all of one's attention or time
• engage or hire for work
• ask to represent; of legal counsel
• give to in marriage
• get caught
• carry on (wars, battles, or campaigns)
• hire for work or assistance
• engage for service under a term of contract
• keep engaged
• present participle and gerund of engage

Adjective Satellite

• attracting or delighting
  • "an engaging frankness"

Adj

• Tending to engage attention or interest; engrossing, interesting; enthralling.
• Charming; attractive, especially of a manner or behaviour.

Noun

• The act of engaging with something; engagement.

Synonyms

absorb, absorbing, affiance, appealing, attractive, betroth, charter, compelling, employ, engage, engross, engrossing, enlist, enthralling, hire, interesting, lease, lock, mesh, occupy, operate, piquant, plight, prosecute, pursue, rent, sweet, take, wage

Antonyms

boorish, boring, disengage, dull, fire, rude, uncivil, uncivilised, unengaging, uninteresting

Anagrams of engaging