diverting
noun1
A diversion or turning aside.
- the narrowings, widenings, divertings, or stoppings of the stream of breath1854, William Barnes, A Philological Grammar (page 9)
diverting
adj1
Dated Amusing, distracting.
- I was every day furniſhing the Court with ſome ridiculous Story; and Glumdalclitch, although ſhe loved me to Exceſs, yet was arch enough to inform the Queen, whenever I committed any Folly that ſhe thought would be diverting to her Majeſty.1726 October 28, [Jonathan Swift], “Several Adventures that Happened to the Author. […]”, in Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. […] [Gulliver’s Travels], volume I, London: […] Benj[amin] Motte, […], →OCLC, part II (A Voyage to Brobdingnag), page 247:
- Derived terms
- divertingly, divertingness, undiverting