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