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Meaning of INTERESTING

Pronunciation:  'inturisting

Matching Terms:  interestingly, interestingly enough, interestingness

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In hacker parlance, this word has strong connotations of "annoying", or "difficult", or both. Hackers relish a challenge, and enjoy wringing all the irony possible out of the ancient Chinese curse "May you live in interesting times".

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