Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Forming secret plots or schemes; addicted to intrigue; given to secret machinations: as, an intriguing disposition.
- Synonyms Artful, Sly, etc. (see cunning); insidious, designing, deceitful, plotting, scheming.
Wiktionary
- adj. Causing a desire to know more; mysterious.
- v. present participle of intrigue.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. disturbingly provocative
- adj. capable of arousing interest or curiosity
Examples
“The Russians might have found the moniker intriguing, but to Sayyed it was an insult, one of many he was sure he would be forced to endure on this cold winter evening.”
“Also rather intriguing is the view of how the girls should not be smarter to or superior to the boys in any way.”
“Your piece on Kana while intriguing is also incredibly alien.”
“What I found especially intriguing is how Kearney mentioned that the world is actually more Science Fiction in nature then Fantasy.”
“One of the most intriguing is the sci-fi drama Fast Forward from Dark Knight's David Goyer and 24's Brannon Braga, about a worldwide blackout that gives everyone a glimpse into the near-future.”
“What I find intriguing is the recent tendency of racist bigots to cry “racism” whenever anybody tries to point out racism or do anything about it.”
“The part that makes it intriguing is the idea that some buy it.”
Think Progress » Chuck Todd: ‘The Tea Party gets a big benefit’ from Fox News’ promotion.
“Tebow's leadership intangibles and running ability remain intriguing to some NFL teams, but he may have hurt himself more than he helped himself with his performance.”
“These are American foods that are presented in intriguing ways.”
“More intriguing is the mood of the American public this year.”
The Huffington Post: Leon T. Hadar: Post-Midterms Foreign Policy: Will They Make a Difference?
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘intriguing’.
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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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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11184 more...
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GRE
predilection, explicit, appeal, supplication, appealing, enchanting, ovation, pertinent, apropos, opportunely, applicable, germane and 381 more...
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Reading 2nd Round
fugitive, hearth, elixir, perpetrator, surreal, tavern, stalk, strut, duress, cavil, intriguing, banister and 10 more...
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barrys favs...
These are the words which are used in a normal conversation...
ambivert, precarious, intriguing, intricacy, pivotal, cognizance, hindsight, back out, cliche, niche, chicane, trivial and 7 more...
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ChortleGiggleSnort
Significant Words- Guiding you on your path to Snazzibility
flimsy, feeble, ranting, ramble, narky, snazzy, yoghurt, bulbous, pustule, globulous, geranium, megalomaniac and 521 more...
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Twitter favorites
The new favourite words of people on Twitter.
A script searches Twitter for "X is my new favorite word" and adds it to this list.
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The Sog Collection
My big word list.
chaos, flaccid, empirical, flotsam, cacophony, grumble, assuage, awe, romance, mortality, coalesce, fortuitous and 3282 more...
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GRE
high frequent
industrious, feckless, debunk, quintessence, loquacious, obsequious, laconic, plethora, lugubrious, serendipity, facetious, turgid and 261 more...
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Reading Random
Got unknown words randomly
delinquency, modicum, dissuade, incendiary, destitute, lachrymose, plight, ruse, empirical, pedantic, demography, giggle and 444 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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a few of my favorite words
these are some of my favorite words...
brilliant, delicious, lovely, ever, with, present, here, light, radiant, bright, beauty, live and 209 more...
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5-1
Hecko, words! Thanks for staying with me. :-)
avenue, viscous, zeroth, usher, scarcely, viability, snout, sole, purify, riotous, menace, moist and 364 more...
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Words I assumed I had not been misspe...
Catching a misspelling is both pleasurable (hooray learning!) and painful (every sentence you now realize you've ever marred with the offending word flashes to mind in one terrible instant).
...separate, exercise, a lot, all right, cemetery, consensus, supersede, playwright, noticeable, perseverance, medieval, gauge and 88 more...
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Music critics vocabulary and phrase
Words and phrase used to describe the sound of music and composers' and musicians' technique and style.
musical Marmite, irresistible perfume, beguiling pastora..., ambience, vibrant, atmospheric, bold modulations, orchestral palette, woodwind filigree, intriguing, inventive, lollipop and 14 more...
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Random Items of Interest
Random Words that Tickle my Fancy
Hercules, nyctalopia, mythical, lovesong, butterball, fulminant, overture, playbill, grandeur, intriguing, gingerbread
Tweets
Looking for tweets for intriguing.
GHibbs My adjectival use: 'It is an intriguing story.' Aug 22, 2011
sionnach "My sister is dating Tarzan", said Gong Li, intriguingly. Dec 29, 2007
sonofgroucho I really like this word, and use it a lot. I'm surprised more Wordies haven't listed it. Dec 28, 2007
seanahan First of all, awesome WordNet definition.
Also, what's the deal with that spelling. I stared at the word for thirty seconds before looking it up to determine I had it spelled correctly. Dec 28, 2007