Synonyms for Entertain:

n.
- assess
- evaluate
- plan
- take a long hard look at someone/something
- take something into consideration
• disport
- re-creation
- re-creations
v.
• admit
- am big on
- are big on
- art big on
- being big on
- gave access
- gave nod
- gave the nod
- gave thumbs up
- gives access
- gives nod
- gives the nod
- gives thumbs up
- giving access
- giving nod
- giving the nod
- giving thumbs up
- intro duce
- intro duces
- intro-duce
- intro-duces
- is big on
- letted in
- letting in
- signed off on
- signing off on
- signs off on
- signs on
- was big on
- wast big on
- were big on
- wert big on
• amuse
- lighten
• anticipate
- am afraid
- are afraid
- art afraid
- being afraid
- counted chickens
- counting chickens
- counts chickens
- cross bridge
- crossed bridge
- crossed the bridge
- crosses bridge
- crosses the bridge
- crossing bridge
- crossing the bridge
- fore cast
- fore casting
- fore casts
- fore saw
- fore seeing
- fore seen
- fore sees
- fore tastes
- fore tasting
- fore tell
- fore telling
- fore tells
- fore told
- fore-cast
- fore-casting
- fore-casts
- fore-saw
- fore-see
- fore-seen
- fore-sees
- fore-tasted
- fore-tastes
- fore-tasting
- fore-tell
- fore-telling
- fore-tells
- fore-told
- had a hunch
- had hunch
- haddest a hunch
- haddest hunch
- hadst a hunch
- hadst hunch
- has hunch
- hast hunch
- hath a hunch
- hath hunch
- having a hunch
- having hunch
- hopes for
- hoping for
- jump gun
- looked forward to
- planned on
- planning on
- pre vision
- pre visioned
- pre visioning
- pre visions
- pre-vision
- pre-visioning
- pre-visions
- prepares for
- preparing for
- previsioned
- previsioning
- promised oneself
- promises oneself
- promising oneself
- saw cards
- saw coming
- saw in cards
- saw in the cards
- see cards
- see in cards
- see the cards
- seeing cards
- seeing coming
- seeing in cards
- sees cards
- sees coming
- sees in cards
- sees in the cards
- sees the cards
- waits for
- were afraid
- wert afraid
• bear
- up held
- up hold
- up holding
- up holds
- up-held
- up-hold
- up-holding
- up-holds
- weigh up on
- weighed up on
- weighing up on
- weighing upon
- weighs up on
- weighs upon
• beguile
- be guile
- be guiles
- be-guile
- be-guiles
- knocked dead
- knocking dead
- knocks dead
- sweep feet
- sweep off one feet
- sweep off ones feet
- sweep one feet
- sweep one's feet
- sweep ones feet
- sweeping feet
- sweeping off feet
- sweeping off one feet
- sweeping off one's feet
- sweeping off ones feet
- sweeping one feet
- sweeping one's feet
- sweeping ones feet
- sweeps feet
- sweeps off feet
- sweeps off one feet
- sweeps off one's feet
- sweeps off ones feet
- sweeps one feet
- sweeps one's feet
- sweeps ones feet
- swept feet
- swept off feet
- swept off one feet
- swept off ones feet
- swept one feet
- swept one's feet
- swept ones feet
- tickle death
- tickled death
- tickles death
- tickles pink
- tickles to death
- tickling death
- tickling pink
- tickling to death
• captivate
- be witch
- be witched
- be witches
- be witching
- be-witch
- be-witched
- be-witches
- be-witching
- enamours
- made a hit with
- made hit with
- makes a hit with
- makes hit with
- making a hit with
- making hit with
- ropes in
- roping in
- turned one on
- turning one on
- turns one on
• cherish
- apprizes
- clave to
- cleaved to
- cleaves to
- cleaving to
- cleft to
- clinging to
- clove to
- clung to
- de fend
- de fended
- de fending
- de fends
- de-fend
- de-fended
- de-fending
- de-fends
- held high esteem
- hold high esteem
- holding dear
- holding high esteem
- holding in high esteem
- holds dear
- holds high esteem
- holds in high esteem
- pre serve
- pre served
- pre serves
- pre serving
- pre-serve
- pre-served
- pre-serves
- pre-serving
• delight
- am the ticket
- am ticket
- are the ticket
- are ticket
- arrided
- arrides
- arriding
- art the ticket
- art ticket
- be ticket
- being the ticket
- being ticket
- de light
- de lighted
- de lighting
- de lights
- de-light
- de-lighted
- de-lighting
- de-lights
- delectated
- delectates
- delectating
- goes over big
- going over big
- hit spot
- is the ticket
- is ticket
- was the ticket
- was ticket
- wast the ticket
- wast ticket
- went over big
- were the ticket
- were ticket
- wert the ticket
- wert ticket
• distract
- be fuddle
- be fuddled
- be fuddles
- be fuddling
- be wilder
- be wildered
- be wildering
- be wilders
- be-fuddle
- be-fuddled
- be-fuddles
- be-fuddling
- be-wilder
- be-wildered
- be-wildering
- be-wilders
- called away
- calling away
- calls away
- catches flies
- catching flies
- caught flies
- de range
- de ranged
- de ranges
- de ranging
- de tract
- de tracts
- de-range
- de-ranged
- de-ranges
- de-ranging
- de-tract
- de-tracts
- dis compose
- dis composed
- dis composes
- dis composing
- dis concert
- dis concerted
- dis concerting
- dis concerts
- dis tract
- dis tracts
- dis-compose
- dis-composed
- dis-composes
- dis-composing
- dis-concert
- dis-concerted
- dis-concerting
- dis-concerts
- dis-tract
- dis-tracts
- drawing away
- draws away
- drew away
- leading away
- leads astray
- leads away
- led away
- mis lead
- mis leading
- mis-lead
- mis-leading
- mis-leads
- turns aside
- un balance
- un balances
- un balancing
- un hinge
- un hinged
- un hinges
- un hinging
- un-balance
- un-balanced
- un-balances
- un-balancing
- un-hinge
- un-hinged
- un-hinges
- un-hinging
• enliven
- Re-store
- braced up
- braces up
- bracing up
- ex cite
- ex cited
- ex cites
- ex citing
- ex-cite
- ex-cited
- ex-cites
- firing up
- gave a lift
- gave life to
- gave lift
- give lift
- gives a lift
- gives life to
- gives lift
- giving a lift
- giving life to
- giving lift
- in spirit
- in spirited
- in spiriting
- in-spirit
- in-spirited
- in-spiriting
- in-spirits
- jazzed up
- jazzes up
- jazzing up
- juices up
- juicing up
- lets sunshine in
- letted sunshine in
- letting sunshine in
- put pep in to
- puts pep in to
- puts pep into
- putting pep in to
- putting pep into
- re fresh
- re freshes
- re new
- re news
- re store
- re stored
- re stores
- re storing
- re-fresh
- re-freshes
- re-new
- re-news
- re-stored
- re-stores
- re-storing
- snap out it
- snapped out it
- snapped out of it
- snapping out it
- snapping out of it
- snaps out it
- snaps out of it
- spiced up
- spices up
- spicing up
- vivificated
- vivificates
- vivificating
- wakes up
• feast
- eating sumptuously
- eats sumptuously
- over indulge
- over indulged
- over indulges
- over indulging
- over-indulged
- over-indulges
- over-indulging
- stuff face
- stuff one face
- stuff ones face
- stuffed face
- stuffed one face
- stuffed one's face
- stuffed ones face
- stuffing face
- stuffing one face
- stuffing one's face
- stuffing ones face
- stuffs face
- stuffs one face
- stuffs one's face
- stuffs ones face
- wine dine
• fete
- festivaled
- festivaling
- held reception for
- holding reception for
- holds reception for
- made much of
- makes much of
- rolled out red carpet
- rolled out the red carpet
- rolling out red carpet
- rolling out the red carpet
- rolls out red carpet
- rolls out the red carpet
• foster
- ministered to
- ministering to
- ministers to
- taking care of
• get
- dis pose
- dis posed
- dis posing
- dis-pose
- dis-posed
- dis-posing
- in spire
- in spired
- in spires
- in spiring
- in-spire
- in-spired
- in-spires
- in-spiring
- pre dispose
- pre disposes
- pre disposing
- pre-dispose
- pre-disposed
- pre-disposes
- pre-disposing
• harbor
- be lieve
- be-lieve
- brooded over
- brooding over
- broods over
- provided refuge
- provides refuge
- providing refuge
- re gards
- re tain
- re tains
- re-gard
- re-tain
- re-tains
- with held
- with hold
- with holding
- with holds
- with-held
- with-hold
- with-holds
• have
- all owed
- all owing
- all-owed
- all-owing
- am compelled to
- am duty to
- am one duty to
- am one's duty to
- am ones duty to
- am to
- am up to
- are compelled to
- are duty to
- are forced to
- are one duty to
- are one's duty to
- are ones duty to
- are to
- are up to
- art compelled to
- art forced to
- art one's duty to
- art ones duty to
- art to
- art up to
- be came
- be come
- be comes
- be duty to
- be one duty to
- be ones duty to
- be to
- be-came
- be-come
- be-comes
- be-coming
- being compelled to
- being duty to
- being forced to
- being one duty to
- being one's duty to
- being ones duty to
- being to
- being up to
- falling on
- falls on
- is compelled to
- is duty to
- is forced to
- is one duty to
- is ones duty to
- is to
- is up to
- meets with
- putting with
- rested with
- rests with
- shoulds
- un derwent
- un-derwent
- under going
- under gone
- under went
- under-going
- under-gone
- under-went
- was compelled to
- was forced to
- was one duty to
- was ones duty to
- was up to
- wast compelled to
- wast duty to
- wast forced to
- wast one duty to
- wast one's duty to
- wast ones duty to
- wast up to
- were compelled to
- were duty to
- were one duty to
- were one's duty to
- were ones duty to
- were to
- were up to
- wert compelled to
- wert duty to
- wert forced to
- wert one duty to
- wert one's duty to
- wert ones duty to
- wert to
- wert up to
• hold
- cross one heart
- cross ones heart
- crossed heart
- crossed one heart
- crossed one's heart
- crossed ones heart
- crosses heart
- crosses one heart
- crosses one's heart
- crosses ones heart
- crossing heart
- crossing one heart
- crossing one's heart
- crossing ones heart
- had sneaking suspicion
- haddest sneaking suspicion
- hadst sneaking suspicion
- has sneaking suspicion
- hast sneaking suspicion
- hath sneaking suspicion
- having sneaking suspicion
- laid money on
- lapping up
- laps up
- laying money on
- lays money on
- sets store by
- setting store by
- sware and down
- sware down
- sware up and down
- sware up down
- swear and down
- swear down
- swear up down
- swearing and down
- swearing down
- swearing up and down
- swearing up down
- swears and down
- swears down
- swears up and down
- swears up down
- swore and down
- swore down
- swore up and down
- swore up down
- takes as gospel truth
- takes stock in
- taking as gospel truth
- taking stock in
- took as gospel truth
- took stock in
• indulge
- gave rein to
- gives rein to
- giving rein to
- goes easy on
- spoiling rotten
- spoils rotten
- spoilt rotten
- went easy on
• interest
- am interesting to
- appealing to
- appeals to
- are interesting to
- art interesting to
- being interesting to
- is interesting to
- sate up
- sits up
- sitting up
- was interesting to
- wast interesting to
- were interesting to
- wert interesting to
• intrigue
- mousetrapped
- mousetrapping
- rivetted
- rivetting
• listen
- am all ears
- am attentive
- am ears
- are all ears
- are attentive
- are ears
- art all ears
- art attentive
- auscultates
- auscultating
- ausculted
- ausculting
- auscults
- be ears
- being all ears
- being attentive
- being ears
- gat a load of
- gat load of
- gave an audience to
- gave attention
- gave audience to
- gave heed to
- get load of
- gets a load of
- gets load of
- getting a load of
- getting load of
- gives an audience to
- gives attention
- gives audience to
- gives heed to
- giving an audience to
- giving audience to
- giving heed to
- got a load of
- got load of
- gotten a load of
- gotten load of
- hang words
- hanged on words
- hanged words
- hanging on words
- hanging words
- hangs on words
- hangs words
- heard tell
- hearing tell
- hears tell
- hung on words
- hung words
- is all ears
- is attentive
- is ears
- lend ear
- lending an ear
- lending ear
- lends an ear
- lends ear
- lent an ear
- lent ear
- over hear
- over heard
- over hearing
- over hears
- over-hear
- over-heard
- over-hearing
- over-hears
- pick upon
- picked up on
- picked upon
- picking upon
- picks up on
- picks upon
- pricked ears
- pricked up ears
- pricking ears
- pricking up ears
- pricks ears
- pricks up ears
- take in to consideration
- takes advice
- takes in to consideration
- takes into consideration
- takes notice
- takes under advisement
- taking advice
- taking in to consideration
- taking under advisement
- took advice
- took in to consideration
- took into consideration
- took notice
- took under advisement
- tune on
- tuned in on
- tuned on
- tunes in
- tunes in on
- tunes on
- tuning in on
- tuning on
- was all ears
- was attentive
- was ears
- wast all ears
- wast attentive
- wast ears
- were all ears
- were attentive
- were ears
- wert all ears
- wert attentive
- wert ears
• lodge
- be stow
- be stowed
- be stowing
- be stows
- be-stow
- be-stowed
- be-stowing
- be-stows
- hosteled
- hosteling
- hostelled
- re side
- re sided
- re sides
- re siding
- re-side
- re-sided
- re-sides
- re-siding
- staid over
- stayed over
- stays over
• nationalize
- communalized
- communalizes
- communalizing
• social
- entertain
Other synonyms:

•

open

•

ask
consider
go on
guest
hear
play
pull
weigh

•

host

•

Other relevant words:

• amuse

re-create
recreate

• believe

hold

• delight

gladden

• feast

wine and dine

• harbor

• nationalize

communalize

• occupy

• please

• quarter

• receive

Hosting
allow entrance
let through
made comfortable
make comfortable
received
roll out red carpet
shake hands
shaking hands
show in
usher in
ushering in
ushers in

• regale

• satisfy

• socialize

• suit

• take

become popular
win favor

• tickle

• titillate

• wow

• Other relevant words (adjective):

opinion

• Other relevant words (noun):

charm

• Other relevant words (transitive noun):

distract
over-indulge
refresh
relax
stimulate

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Equivalence
- Adjective
  entertaining.
- Verb, non-3rd person singular present
  amuse.
- Verb, base form
  amuse.
Independent
- Verb, base form
  accept, accommodate, adjudicate, admit, appreciate, ascertain, cherish, communicate, consider, contemplate, discuss, disseminate, distract, divert, enjoy, envisage, envision, examine, explore, feed, greet, hear, hearing, hold, host, know, learn, listen, maintain, nurture, obtain, prosecute, publicize, retain, sustain, take, treat, understand, Considering, admits.

What are the hypernyms for Entertain?

A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.

hypernyms for entertain (as verbs)
- social
  disport, host, amuse, divert.

What are the hyponyms for Entertain?

Hyponyms are more specific words categorized under a broader term, known as a hypernym.

hyponyms for entertain (as verbs)
- social
  socialise, socialize.

What are the opposite words for entertain?

Entertain, which means to amuse or interest someone, has several antonyms that convey the opposite meaning. The first antonym of entertain is bore; if you bore someone, you fail to hold their attention or interest them. The second antonym is repel, which means to discourage or disgust someone. Another antonym is vex; this word means to annoy or irritate someone. Distract is another antonym for entertain; it means to divert someone's attention away from something important or to prevent them from concentrating. Finally, alienate is an antonym for entertain; it means to cause someone to feel isolated or estranged.

What are the antonyms for Entertain?

n.
• noun
- turf
v.
• accommodate visitors
- eject
- ignore
- leave
- neglect
• amuse
- anger
- annoy
- bore
- depress
- disappoint
- discourage
- displease
- disregard
- dissuade
- distress
- disturb
- forget
- frustrate
- irritate
- not use
- offend
- pain
- refuse
- reject
- repel
- repulse
- tire
- trouble
- turn away
- turn off
- upset
- worry
• noun
- abandon
- abjure
- aggravate
- bother
- bug
- busy
- chafe
- decline
- deny
- desert
- discard
- disdain
- disquiet
- distract
- drain
- drop
- enervate
- erase
- exasperate
- exhaust
- expunge
- fatigue
- forsake
- fret
- gall
- give up
- grate
- harass
- harry
- irk
- jade
- nettle
- overlook
- part
- peeve
- perturb
- pester
- pique
- pooh-pooh
- quit
- renounce
- repudiate
- scorn
- slight
- vex
- wear
- wear out
- weary
• think about seriously
- condemn
- disapprove
- let go
- misunderstand
- release
Other relevant words:

cast out
visit

Usage examples for Entertain

They want to show their lion, and they also want to entertain their lion!

"Jane Oglander"

Marie Belloc Lowndes

They have four men staying in the house just now, and only their married daughter to entertain them.

"Jane Oglander"

Marie Belloc Lowndes

You must entertain this gentleman for me.

"The Martins Of Cro' Martin, Vol. II (of II)"

Charles James Lever

Famous quotes with Entertain

I've always felt that a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the same topic.

Abigail Adams
I'm not the type of guy who enjoys one-night stands. It leaves me feeling very empty and cynical. It's not even fun sexually. I need to feel something for the woman and entertain the vain hope that it may lead to a relationship.

Ben Affleck
When I look up at the screen and see myself I always have to laugh. Not because I think I'm doing a horrible job, quite the contrary, I just feel it's so surreal to feel like one person can entertain so many at one time.

Ben Affleck
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

Aristotle
Never in my wildest dreams did I entertain the idea that I would become a fashion designer.

Giorgio Armani

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