amuse

Significado (Inglês)

1. To entertain or occupy (someone or something) in a pleasant manner; to stir (someone) with pleasing emotions.
2. To cause laughter or amusement; to be funny.
3. To keep in expectation; to beguile; to delude.
4. To occupy or engage the attention of; to lose in deep thought; to absorb; also, to distract; to bewilder.

Sinônimos

entertain

divert

please

delight

cheer up

enjoy

play with

gladden

cause to laugh

play

satisfy

disport

gratify

make laugh

recreate

joke

🤣

cheer

humor

fun

sport

enjoy oneself

beguile

have fun

distract

frolic

amusement

laugh

😆

lead astray

make glad

make joyful

mislead

mock

oblige

pander

perform

play games

pleasure

recreation

regale

revel

ridicule

skylark

sneer

snicker

snigger

solace

suit

taunt

tend

tickle

titter

toy with

brighten up

jolly up

make happy

make merry

make someone laugh

cause to play

be enjoyable

keep pleasantly

lavish attention on

make pleased

absent-mindedness

tickle someone’s fancy

abstract

act

bewilder

charity

charm

cheat

comfort

console

content

deceive

delude

enchant

enliven

exhilarate

gallivant

gamble

game

giggle

hobby

interest

jeer

jest

jollify

joy

😂

junket

Pronunciado como (IPA)

/əˈmjuːz/

Etimologia (Inglês)

Herdado de inglês médio: *amusen

Cognato com occitânico: musa

Cognato com italiano: musare

Cognato com frísio setentrional: müs

Cognato com alemão: Maul

Cognato com Frankish: *muoza

Cognato com holandês: musen

Cognato com alemão arcaico alto: *muoza

Cognato com alemão: Muße

In summary

From Late Middle English *amusen (“to mutter, be astonished, gaze meditatively on”), from Old French amuser (“to stupefy, waste time, be lost in thought”), from a- + muser (“to stare stupidly at, gape, wander, waste time, loiter, think carefully about, attend to”), of uncertain and obscure origin. Cognate with Occitan musa (“idle waiting”), Italian musare (“to gape idly about”). Possibly from Old French *mus (“snout”) from Vulgar Latin *mūsa (“snout”) — compare Medieval Latin mūsum (“muzzle, snout”) –, from Proto-Germanic *mū- (“muzzle, snout”), from Proto-Indo-European *mū- (“lips, muzzle”). Compare North Frisian müs, mös (“mouth”), German Maul (“muzzle, snout”).
Alternative etymology connects muser and musa with Frankish *muoza (“careful attention, leisure, idleness”), from Proto-Germanic *mōtǭ (“leave, permission”), from Proto-Indo-European *med- (“to acquire, possess, control”).
This would make it a cognate of Dutch musen (“to leisure”), Old High German *muoza (“careful attention, leisure, idleness”) and muozōn (“to be idle, have leisure or opportunity”), German Muße (“leisure”). More at empty.