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Definition: Amused |
AmusedAdjective1. Pleasantly occupied; "We are not amused" -Queen Victoria. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "amused" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references) |
Synonyms: AmusedSynonyms: diverted (adj), entertained (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Amusement | Amused; Verb: "pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw"; laughing; Verb:; risible; ready to burst, ready to split, ready to die with laughter; convulsed with laughter, rolling in the aisles. |
Rejoicing | Amused; cheerful. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Amused |
| English words defined with "amused": Amusable, amuse ♦ disport, divert ♦ laugh away, laugh off. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "amused": BONDSMAN ♦ MacFarlane's Geese ♦ NAPOLEON ♦ Scheherazade, SHAKESPEARE. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | And amused! (Zardoz; writing credit: John Boorman) I am not amused. (Tale Spin; writing credit: Libby Hinson; Stephen Sustarsic) We are not amused. (Wonder Woman; writing credit: Sandra Paretti) Well your ignorance has always amused me. (Lara Croft: Tomb Raider; writing credit: Sara B. Cooper; Mike Werb) | |
Lyrics | And are still more amused by prank phone calls, (What's My Age Again?; performing artist: Blink-182) You used to be so amused (Like a Rolling Stone; performing artist: Bob Dylan) I know I keep you amused but I feel I'm being used (MAGGIE MAY; performing artist: Rod Stewart) | |
Clever | Blessed are those who can laugh at themselves, they will never cease to be amused. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | He Loves to Be Amused (1913) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
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 | She went on with her game in silence and he, soberly amused.Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip appear amused by two "prisoners" in stocks during their tour of the Old Fort at Festival Park, a recreation of the first permanent English settlement at Jamestown, Virginia.Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Author | Quotation |
Phaedrus | The mind ought sometimes to be amused, that it may the better return to thought, and to itself. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| Title | Author | Quote |
Emma | Austen, Jane | |
Sylvie and Bruno | Carroll, Lewis | I went down on my hands and knees to look for him, for I felt very curious to know how young Frogs ought to be amused. |
Life, the Universe and Everything | Douglas Adams | A kept myself amused all that time jumping in and out of a gin and tonic." |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | He was enormously amused. |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | We are amused at beholding the costume of Henry VIII, or Queen Elizabeth, as much as if it was that of the King and Queen of the Cannibal Islands. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Economic History | Ukraine | In the days of the former Soviet Union, foreign visitors were amused by the direct simplicity of Soviet "advertising"; shops were distinguished by unlit signs stating "milk," "bread," "meat," "ice cream," etc. (references) |
Travel | Czech Rep | Czechs do not smile as a social signal of greeting, as Americans, Britons, and many other Westerners do, but only when they are amused or pleased. (references) |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | BONDSMAN, n. A fool who, having property of his own, undertakes to become responsible for that entrusted to another to a third. Philippe of Orleans wishing to appoint one of his favorites, a dissolute nobleman, to a high office, asked him what security he would be able to give. "I need no bondsmen," he replied, "for I can give you my word of honor." "And pray what may be the value of that?" inquired the amused Regent. "Monsieur, it is worth its weight in gold." |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Amused" is generally used as a lexical verb (past participle) -- approximately 41.76% of the time. "Amused" is used about 739 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (past participle) | 41.76% | 309 | 16,435 |
| Lexical Verb (past tense) | 28.92% | 214 | 20,696 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 28.78% | 213 | 20,749 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.54% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Total | 100.00% | 739 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "amused": be amused ♦ be amused at ♦ be amused at smth. ♦ i am not amused ♦ keep smb. amused. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "amused": half-amused. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
amused center easily | 15 |
amused | 13 |
amused to death | 10 |
amused easily | 10 |
amused death roger water | 8 |
amused club easily | 4 |
amused not we | 3 |
amused death lyrics | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "amused"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | i kënaqur (appeased, charmed, content, contented, glad, gladsome, happy, pleased, satisfied). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | مستمتع (listener, zestful). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | развеселен (elevated, exhilarated, jolly, merry). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 发笑 (Amuse, Amusing). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | pobavený. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | minua huvitti (I was amused at). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | amusé. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | vergnügte (hilariously), belustigt, amüsierte. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | משועשע, מבו"ר (diverted, entertained), מבו"ח (humorous), ב"וח (gay, jolly), " " (beneficiary, delighted, enjoyer). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | vidám (blithe, blithe as a lark, bobbish, cheerful, chirpy, comic, comical, daft, dashing, droll, exhilarated, felicitous, frisky, frolicsome, gay, glad, gladsome, gleeful, gleesome, hilarious, jaunty, jocose, jocular, jocund, jolly, jovial, joyful, joyous, light hearted, light-hearted, mellow, merry, mirthful, playful, rejoicing, rollicking, sprightly, sunny, to be in high spirits). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | kegelian (tickled), geli (ticklish). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 面白がる (to amuse oneself, to be amused, to enjoy, to think fun), 興がる (to be amused or interested in), 戯れる (to be amused, to be playful, to flirt with, to frolic, to gambol, to joke, to play, to sport). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | たわむれる (to be amused, to be playful, to flirt with, to frolic, to gambol, to joke, to play, to sport), おもしろがる (to amuse oneself, to be amused, to enjoy, to think fun), ざれる (to be amused, to be playful, to flirt with, to frolic, to gambol, to joke, to play, to sport), きょうがる (to be amused or interested in), じゃれる (to be amused, to be playful, to flirt with, to frolic, to gambol, to joke, to play, to sport). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 즐겁게 하". (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | amuseday divertido (amusing, canty, diverting, droll, enjoyable, entertaining, frolicsome, funny, gander, gay, hilarity, jolly, larksome, laughable, merry, mirthful, playful, screaming, sportful, sportive, waggish). (various references) amuzat (merry). (various references) довольный (complacent, content, contented, glad, happy, much bucked, pleased, satisfied). (various references) zabavljen. (various references) entretenido (amusing, entertaining, kept), divertido (amusing, comic, comical, distrait, diverting, droll, enchanting, enjoyable, entertaining, funny, jolly, merry). (various references) road. (various references) oyalanmak (amuse oneself, be amused, be pleased with, dally, delay, dilly dally, disport oneself, fool, fool about, fool around, footle, fribble, frivol, hang out, linger, loiter, mess around, monkey around, piddle, play around, Potter, potter about, potter at, procrastinate, stay, Tarry, trifle, trifle with, waste time), eğlenmek (amuse oneself, be amused, disport oneself, fool, frolic, get a ball out of smth., go on a spree, have a good time, have fun, laugh away, make fun, make merry, make merry over, recreate oneself, revel, rollick, sport). (various references) gьяmenmek (be amused, be detained). (various references) задоволений (comfortable, content, contented, happy, satisfied). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "amused": amusedly. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "amused": mandamused, unamused. (additional references) | |
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"Amused" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: amased, amessed, ammased, amose, amus, amusee, amuthed, amuze, aquse, ejusdem. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "amused" (pronounced umyuw"zd) |
| 6 | u m y uw" z d | bemused. |
| 5 | -m y uw" z d | mused. |
| 4 | -y uw" z d | abused, accused, confused, defused, diffused, disabused, excused, fused, infused, misused, overused, recused, refused, suffused, transfused, underused, unused, used. |
| 3 | -uw" z d | bruised, cruised, enthused, oozed, perused, reused. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: medusa. | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-e-m-s-u" | |
-1 letter: amuse, dames, dumas, mauds, meads, mused, sedum. | |
-2 letters: amus, dame, dams, dues, duma, emus, made, mads, maes, maud, mead, mesa, muds, muse, sade, same, seam, sued, used. | |
-3 letters: ads, amu, dam, due, eau, eds, ems, emu, mad, mae, mas, med, mud, mus, sad, sae, sau, sea, sue, sum, use. | |
-4 letters: ad, ae, am, as. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-e-m-s-u" | |
+1 letter: almudes, assumed, medusae, medusal, medusan, medusas, remudas. | |
+2 letters: agendums, ambushed, amusedly, bermudas, campused, duramens, eardrums, madhouse, maunders, maundies, measured, medullas, medusans, mundanes, muscadel, muscadet, summated, surnamed, unamused, unmasked, unseamed, unshamed. | |
+3 letters: admeasure, ambuscade, amygdules, ausformed, coassumed, demurrals, drumbeats, drumheads, dumbcanes, dumbheads, edematous, eudaemons, feudalism, guardsmen, housemaid, humanised, madhouses, marauders, meandrous, misgauged, misvalued, modulates, muraenids, muscadels, muscadets, muscadine, mustached, nursemaid, outdreams, outshamed, reassumed, simulated, subdermal, unashamed, underarms. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)41 6D 75 73 65 64 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).- -- ..- ... . -.. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000001 01101101 01110101 01110011 01100101 01100100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)A m u s e d |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0041 006D 0075 0073 0065 0064 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)357987857170 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Slideshow 7. Images: Photo Album 8. Quotations: Familiar | 9. Quotations: Fiction 10. Quotations: Non-fiction 11. Usage Frequency 12. Expressions | 13. Expressions: Internet 14. Translations: Modern 15. Derivations 16. Rhymes | 17. Anagrams 18. Orthography 19. Bibliography |
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