Diverting is valid Scrabble Word

Is diverting a scrabble word?
Official Scrabble Players Dictionary YES
Official Tournament and Club Word List YES
Collins Scrabble Words YES
Is diverting valid Words with Friends?
Words with Friends YES

9 letters word
14 points in Scrabble
17 points in WWF

Definitions for DIVERTING in dictionary:

VERB:

DIVERT, to turn aside
cause (someone or something) to change course or turn from one direction to another
(of a vehicle or person) change course
reallocate (money or resources) to a different purpose
distract (someone) from something
draw the attention of (someone) away from tedious or serious concerns; entertain or amuse

ADJECTIVE:

Amusing; entertaining.
providing enjoyment; pleasantly entertaining

Words related to DIVERTING

divert10 diverted13 diverts11

Words that contain DIVERTING

divertingly19 undiverting16

How to use DIVERTING in a sentence

Her gossip without being ill-natured, was extremely diverting to me, who had been so long out of the great world.
Luxmore now sought to injure him by diverting the water from his cloth-mills, and leaving his great wheels idle.
My cousin, with the apparent motive of diverting my thoughts from dwelling on the recent scene, began to converse on subjects that he was right in supposing might interest me.
The account which you give me of his mortifying change of reception at the assembly, would be highly diverting, if it gave me less pain to hear it.
At the same moment something dark moved aside, the pony diverting his own steps to avoid it.
I shall add to this another piece as diverting, which also happened in my knowledge at this very town of Yeovil, though some years ago.
He peeled an orange for Miss Gallosh, and cut the skin into the most diverting figures, pressing her hand tenderly as he presented her with these works of art.
What wonder, therefore, that the thoughts of these people turned toward the possibility of diverting the treasures of the Transvaal into their own direction.
In the following pages, however, I believe wisdom and wit, the didactic and the diverting, will be found in tolerably fair proportions.
On the way I succeeded in diverting his mind from any possible awkward questions by relating details of my sad story until I could see the poor fellow was on the verge of tears.

This was certainly the most diverting portion of the entertainment, from its genuineness, the eagerness of the competitors, and their ill-disguised jealousy.
In the afternoon Sir Colin made a feint to the left of our position for the purpose of diverting the attention of the enemy from the real line of advance.
With the most joyous and diverting eagerness, he tore open the paper, and, in counting over the sum, stopped frequently to congratulate himself on the recovery of it.
But the mental feat in which I take most satisfaction, and which I doubt not is most diverting to my keepers, is that of creating Mr.
Hartog himself was so cast down by the loss of our ship that he seemed incapable of diverting his thoughts from the catastrophe which had overtaken us.
A rather diverting story in which his sister was the heroine may be worth telling, if only because it was so characteristic of the period.
He had flung his cane, whirling, in the hope of diverting her aim, and had followed it at a leap.
Singing was not the only means I possessed of diverting the royal Mehevi and his easy-going subject.
This story of vacation days spent in a summer camp for boys in the New Hampshire woods is pleasantly diverting.
As Master-Card, an amusing and diverting Affair heard of, or entered into.
In spite of its sad deficiency in moral tone, the narrative is highly diverting.
If one is worried, it is a good plan to read something diverting, but not exciting, just before retiring.
Cadman had conversed for some time after tea without diverting my attention from the new box of bricks which Mrs.
Not feeling myself called upon to interfere, I prepared to see something diverting.
Its natural tendency is to run straight down the hill, and nothing is gained by diverting it from this course.
Not only has he delineated many kinds of folly, but even of sheer stupidity has he contrived to give a most diverting and entertaining picture.
The countenance of the chief betrayed much seriousness and solidity, and the diverting laugh of his countrymen was suspended by a sober cheerfulness.
A little of my odd pleasure of former times still comes to salute me here, now and then, without diverting me from the road of salvation.
There was always some diverting bit of individual lunacy to make his proceedings interesting.
A little of my old pleasure of former times still comes to salute me here, now and then, without diverting me from the road of salvation.
When he felt the girl so near him, Germain, who had succeeded in diverting his thoughts and had brightened up a little for a moment, began to lose his head again.
There is another system of bird-hunting which is quite original and diverting to relate.
Change of climate or the diverting of the course of a great river may make their country unfit for habitation, or they may be expelled by a stronger race.

Similar words containing DIVERT without suffix ing

divert10 diverts11 diverted13 diverter12 diverters13 divertive16 divertible16 undiverted15 diverticula17 divertingly19 undiverting16 diverticular18 diverticulum20 divertimenti18 divertimento18 indivertible18 indivertibly21 divertibility22 diverticulate19 divertimentos19 divertisement19 diverticulated21 diverticulitis20 diverticuloses20 diverticulosis20 divertisements20 divertissement20 diverticulites20 divertibilities21 divertissements21 diverticulitide22 diverticulitise21 diverticulosise21 diverticulitises22 diverticulitides23 diverticulosises22

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