Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Alluring; attracting; charming. Formerly also inticing.
Wiktionary
- adj. That entices; alluring; attracting; charming.
- v. present participle of entice.
- n. enticement; temptation
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. That entices; alluring.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. highly attractive and able to arouse hope or desire
Examples
“Despite Cairn's mixed results, the Arctic waters off the coast of Greenland remain enticing for oil companies, where experts estimate that 4. 1bn barrels of untapped crude lies.”
The Guardian: Cairn Energy fails to find enough oil off the coast of Greenland
“It also explains the importance of the photo and profile background creation, which is surprisingly powerful in enticing people to follow you.”
What You Can Learn From "All A Twitter" by Tee Morris | The Creative Penn
“And hearing about Marvel's desire to turn it into something with lots of action, although enticing, is much more troublesome than anything Norton has tried to do.”
Edward Norton Finally Speaks on The Incredible Hulk 'Feud' « FirstShowing.net
“In a belated response to the success of online booksellers in enticing customers to Web sites such as Amazon, two publishers have launched features that allow customers to browse through books online.”
“And even more enticing is my discovery that he also wrote a lot of plays, all fueled by his lovely skewed perspectives on death and societal mishaps like love and hope.”
“Though all about her called the enticing voices of night and the river, yet she listened for the tried counsel voices of the plain Panama streets and the busy office.”
“Thus, whereas the Christian heaven is purely spiritual - "they shall neither marry nor give into marriage" (Matthew 22: 30) and not necessarily "enticing" - some Muslim accounts of paradise are downright hedonistic.”
Writings from the Middle East Forum and Middle East Quarterly.
“[Footnote 7: Joi -- Thursday and Jupiter.] "Come, hero, come to the cooling waters, let us amuse you," called the enticing maidens.”
“Pining under the closer imprisonment in his garret, which the discovery of his subterranean refuge had brought upon him, the laird would often have made his escape at night but for the fear of disturbing the Mairs; and now that there was no one to disturb, the temptation to spend his nights in the open air was the more irresistible that he had conceived the notion of enticing nature herself into his very chamber.”
“He loves the idea of enticing women with different stories and different tales.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘enticing’.
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Beautiful and Ugly
Beautiful, attractive, well-formed
Ugly, unattractive, malformedadorable, alluring, angelic, appealing, appetizing, attractive, beaming, beauteous, beautiful, becoming, beguiling, bewitching and 180 more...
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Rexicon
brazen, insipid, cuss, penchant, salacious, titillate, lurid, schlemiel, interlope, masquerade, supercilious, action-taking and 51 more...
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EN - trendy lifestyle words
private, tenacious, vogue, hoard, landscape, extravaganza, besiege, eatery, wrest, refurbish, enticing, breakout and 24 more...
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diioxyde's Words
macabre, egypt, egyptology, queen, love, sex, sister, lover, web, cobweb, line, circle and 223 more...
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Real words that I love
Words that make me happy in my pants AND have a place in the dictionary.
enervate, efficacious, basilisk, minotaur, elfin, elephantine, schadenfreude, enigma, emasculate, acidic, appalling, ridiculous and 102 more...
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eggplantia5's Words
scintillate, marvel, cranberry, oscillate, triumph, bamboozle, grimace, magical, book, hexagon, cipher, compendium and 2727 more...
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vozcelik's Words
cranny, tummy, nook, sinister, cajole, frugal, chafe, wimp, booger, patriarchy, indifference, mire and 162 more...
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Idk, I like these words.
ethereality, apathy, consideration, soul, safety, lone wolf, darkness, pressure, ocean, few, collapse, believe and 155 more...
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stpeter's Words
abase, abasement, abashed, abdicate, aberrant, abeyance, abhor, abhorrent, abide, abject, ablation, abnegation and 3536 more...
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conceptwriter's Words
sloth, jackass, dickhead, technostalgic, futuristic, enigma, impact, addict, nasty, premium, extraordinaire, yearning and 262 more...
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GRE
predisposed, browbeaten, hegemonic, corollary, mendacity, remnant, futile, touchstone, upshot, intuition, perseverance, perk and 214 more...
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oneasterism's words
Words that I like, that I don't use often enough, that are new to me, that friends and family have taught me, and so on.
lugubrious, reticent, eschelon, missive, penchant, copious, conspicuous, tranquil, redolent, asinine, inane, dilatory and 625 more...
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Favourites
wither, pallid, evanescent, enamour, discovery, smoky, tempest, pantheon, fatuous, revenant, aquatic, escapist and 102 more...
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Study list
fancymonger, conte, belie, prosaic, hackneyed, trite, wizened, enticing, thwarting, thwart, deadpan, encroachment and 22 more...
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my dictionary
palatial, immaculate, sleep-deprived, Kleptocracy, customs brokerage, parochial, stagnation, egregious, rife, interdict, unassuming, extortion and 81 more...
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gozozogo's list
concur, whipsaw, befuzzle, obsolescent, indelible, endoplasmic retic..., quixotic, antidisestablishm..., blitzkrieg, putain, salope, s'il vous..., doppelganger and 39 more...
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