"That's interesting."
It's such a useful adjective. "Interesting" can be positive, disparaging, noncommittal, questioning. It's an all-purpose reaction to almost anything. A college professor of mine even banned the word in her class because she thought it was so over-used that it had ceased to have meaning.
My problem with the word "interesting" is not its banality, but its length: eleven letters. On Twitter, that's a lot of characters to spend on a single word. So I looked up "interesting" on Thesaurus.com and found 30 good synonyms with 10 letters or less. Not only will these words make my tweets more concise, they'll also vary my vocabulary and make my prose more... compelling.
- alluring
- amusing
- attractive
- compelling
- curious
- delightful
- engaging
- exotic
- impressive
- intriguing
- lovely
- pleasing
- refreshing
- striking
- unusual
- absorbing
- affecting
- arresting
- enchanting
- engrossing
- entrancing
- fine
- gripping
- inviting
- riveting
- stirring
- winning
- elegant
- magnetic
- suspicious
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