Entertaining
Entertaining adjective - Providing amusement or enjoyment.
Tongue-in-cheek and entertaining are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Tongue-in-cheek" instead an adjective "Entertaining".
Tongue-in-cheek
Tongue-in-cheek adjective - Cleverly amusing in tone.
Entertaining and tongue-in-cheek are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Entertaining" instead an adjective phrase "Tongue-in-cheek".
Mutual synonyms
Related pairs
- whimsical and entertaining
- whimsical and tongue-in-cheek
- light and entertaining
- light and tongue-in-cheek
- gay and entertaining
- gay and tongue-in-cheek
- lively and entertaining
- lively and tongue-in-cheek
- playful and entertaining
- playful and tongue-in-cheek
- cheerful and entertaining
- cheerful and tongue-in-cheek
- amusing and entertaining
- amusing and tongue-in-cheek
Both words in one sentence
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The content is presented somewhat tongue-in-cheek, not at all shying away from wordplay and the occasional Toilet Humor, but still manages to be highly entertaining.
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Usually these are written with a tongue-in-cheek attitude, though, so they can often be quite entertaining (the Disney version does not get the same treatment; if these books mention it at all, it's usually in derogatory terms).
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However, owing to the simple plots and some thoroughly entertaining tongue-in-cheek body language, one hardly needed dialogue in order to discern what was happening.
Source: Western Animation / Pingu
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Tongue-in-cheek and Entertaining. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 28, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/entertaining/tongue-in-cheek
Entertaining & Tongue-in-cheek. N.p., 2016. Web. 28 Jul. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/entertaining/tongue-in-cheek>.
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