interesting

1. 1.

   arousing or holding the attention

   Antonymsuninteresting

   Similarabsorbingentertainingamusingintriguingnewsworthy

Questions about interesting

What does interesting mean?

interesting means "arousing or holding the attention".

How many syllables are in interesting?

interesting has 3 syllables: in-tere-sting. The stress falls on "in". In IPA it is /ˈɪntɹəstɪŋ/.

What is the opposite of interesting?

The recorded antonyms are uninteresting.

Is interesting a common word?

interesting is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.