ENGAGING


Meaning of ENGAGING in English

en ‧ gag ‧ ing /ɪnˈɡeɪdʒɪŋ/ BrE AmE adjective

pleasant and attracting your interest:

an engaging smile

—engagingly adverb

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THESAURUS

■ person

▪ nice especially spoken friendly, kind, or polite. In written and formal English, it is better to use a more specific and interesting adjective than nice :

I like Clare – she’s really nice.

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It was nice of them to offer to help.

▪ pleasant friendly, polite, and easy to talk to – used especially about someone that you do not know very well:

I only met her once or twice but she seemed pleasant.

▪ sweet very kind and gentle:

Kylie’s a very caring, sweet person.

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It was sweet of you to send me a card.

▪ charming behaving in a polite and friendly way, which makes people like you and want to do things for you:

The salesman was very charming.

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a charming hostess

▪ engaging interesting or amusing in a way that makes people like you – a rather formal word:

She can be very engaging.

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an engaging smile

▪ likeable easy to like and seeming nice and friendly:

Bobby was a likeable kid with an angelic face.

▪ good-natured having a nice kind character and not getting angry easily:

Everyone likes Mike because he’s always so good-natured.

▪ great informal used about someone who you like and admire a lot:

He’s a great guy!

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Sue’s boyfriend is really great.

▪ lovely especially British English informal very nice, kind, and friendly:

All the people I met on the course were lovely.

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a lovely man

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English.      Longman - Словарь современного английского языка.