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Definitions for Engaging

[1] winning; attractive; pleasing: an engaging smile.
[2] to occupy the attention or efforts of (a person or persons): He engaged her in conversation.
[3] to secure for aid, employment, use, etc.; hire: to engage a worker; to engage a room.
[4] to attract and hold fast: The novel engaged her attention and interest.
[5] to attract or please: His good nature engages everyone.
[6] to bind, as by pledge, promise, contract, or oath; make liable: He engaged himself to repay his debt within a month.
[7] to betroth (usually used in the passive): They were engaged last week.
[8] to bring (troops) into conflict; enter into conflict with: Our army engaged the enemy.
[9] Mechanics . to cause (gears or the like) to become interlocked; interlock with.
[10] to attach or secure.
[11] Obsolete . to entangle or involve.
[12] to occupy oneself; become involved: to engage in business or politics.
[13] to take employment: She engaged in her mother's business.
[14] to pledge one's word; assume an obligation: I was unwilling to engage on such terms.
[15] to cross weapons; enter into conflict: The armies engaged early in the morning.
[16] Mechanics . (of gears or the like) to interlock.
[17] pleasing, charming, or winning
[18] to secure the services of; employ
[19] to secure for use; reserve engage a room
[20] to involve (a person or his attention) intensely; engross; occupy
[21] to attract (the affection) of (a person) her innocence engaged him
[22] to draw (somebody) into conversation
[23] (intr) to take part; participate he engages in many sports
[24] to promise (to do something)
[25] (also intr) military to begin an action with (an enemy)
[26] to bring (a mechanism) into operation he engaged the clutch
[27] (also intr) to undergo or cause to undergo interlocking, as of the components of a driving mechanism, such as a gear train
[28] machinery to locate (a locking device) in its operative position or to advance (a tool) into a workpiece to commence cutting
[29] (of a writer or artist, esp a man) morally or politically committed to some ideology

Words related to Engaging

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Words nearby Engaging

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Origin of Engaging

e1515–25; < Middle French engager, Old French engagier. See en-1, gage1

Other words from Engaging

en·gag·ing·ly , adverb
en·gag·ing·ness , noun
qua·si-en·gag·ing , adjective
qua·si-en·gag·ing·ly , adverb
un·en·gag·ing , adjective
en·gag·er , noun

Word origin for Engaging

eC15: from Old French engagier, from en- 1 + gage a pledge, see gage 1

Synonyms for Engaging

alluring, appealing, attractive, captivating, fascinating, interesting, intriguing, inviting, likable, lovable, pleasant, pleasing, sweet, bewitching, enchanting, enticing, entrancing, fetching, prepossessing, winning, agreeable, glamorous, magnetic, mesmeric, siren, winsome