amusing

Adjective

amusing (comparative more amusing or amusinger, superlative most amusing or amusingest)

1. Entertaining.
   • The film has some amusing moments, but it is unlikely to make you laugh out loud.
   • We don’t get amusinger as we get older, we grow prosy and repeat ourselves and talk about our complaints and selfish grievances: but our old friends bear up with our dullness for old times’ sake; […]1856 March 10, William Makepeace Thackeray, “To Mrs. Elliot”, in Gordon N[orton] Ray, editor, The Letters and Private Papers of William Makepeace Thackeray, volume III (1852–1856), London: Oxford...

   Synonyms:

   diverting

2. Funny, hilarious.
   • An amusing incident on the first of these journeys was the checking by signal of the flyer about 3 miles out of Paris, with the result that it was overhauled by the 6.25 p.m. semi-fast from Paris to Montargis, to the unconcealed delight of passengers in the latter.1952 December, 'Mercury', “Modern French Locomotive Performance”, in Railway Magazine, pages 808-809
   • [T]hey’d had to call it something – i.e. something that differentiated this occasion from others where they might just go for a pint or a curry. So beer & sausages had somehow happily invented itself, […] The best thing, of course, the amusingest thing, was that no one ever brought beer and Jas had...2003, Phil Hogan, chapter 1, in The Freedom Thing, London: Abacus, →ISBN, page 20