Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Having strong appeal; enticing: a tempting repast.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- That tempts, entices, or allures; attractive; seductive: as, tempting pleasures.
Wiktionary
- adj. attractive, appealing, enticing
- adj. seductive, alluring, inviting
- v. present participle of tempt.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Adapted to entice or allure; attractive; alluring; seductive; enticing.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. highly attractive and able to arouse hope or desire
- adj. very pleasantly inviting
Examples
“Further tempting is the fact that many of those earlier bestsellers are available as free downloads at Project Gutenberg.”
“Sure was tempting from the 1000 yard line to take my M1A and bust some Rams on the Silhouette range to the left!!”
“When it comes to wishes about their own aging, denial is once again tempting to these elder care providers.”
The Huffington Post: Ellen Galinsky: Elder Care in 2010: Denial is Not an Option
“With the ease and availability of the Internet, how tempting is it for high school and college students to "cut and paste" information without citing the source for their term papers and homework assignments?”
“It may seem short term tempting, but I'm convinced these new liquor, cigarette and sodie pop surcharges are entirely the 180 degree wrong way to go.”
“So tempting is this conflation, in fact, that in a later discussion of this very point, Jonah accidentally refers to “life” when he means “personhood.””
“It sounds tempting from a union point of view," Sandra Feldman told me of Finn's parallel approach.”
“Children's books, lying in tempting confusion near the door, immediately fastened Ellen's eyes and attention.”
“The great thing Satan aims at, in tempting good people, is to overthrow their relation to God as a Father, and so to cut off their dependence on him, their duty to him, and their communion with him.”
“This is a precious promise, and speaks a great deal both of honour and comfort to the saints, nor is it ever the worse for being quoted and abused by the devil in tempting Christ, Matt. iv.”
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon)
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘tempting’.
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Describing the Taste of Foods
yummy, zesty, piquant, pungent, sharp, spicy, poignant, delicious, ambrosial, appetizing, delectable, heavenly and 194 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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RELI - words with Biblical connotations
Words in the Bible evoking biblical stories or with special spiritual meaning. Proper names have been reduced to the minimum.
ark, judgement, holy, saint, baptism, spirit, love, eternal, altar, balsam, covenant, flood and 1115 more...
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kingofbash's Words
bash, poleaxed, salacious, libertine, charlatan, aplomb, fortuitous, finagle, apoplectic, debutante, carte blanche, aardvark and 472 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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Probe~ation
An obnoxious and ridiculous madlib list where verbish '-ing' words fill in the blank wherein the blank is a call for a beating.
For example:
"You're ________in' for a brus...searching, looking, hunting, seeking, questing, exploring, asking, inquiring, snooping, poking, probing, scouting and 262 more...
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Ghosts of Girlfriends Past (2009)
Words from 2009 'Ghosts of Girlfriends Past' film.
ravishing, juggle, rehearsal, in bulk, hoard, miser, detract, appendage, ordain, slick, scent, innuendo and 68 more...
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deliciously descriptive
words I use in my writing to paint pictures.
grey, cinnamon, pale, filigree, wistful, embrace, affection, spatter, glisten, sated, shiver, graceful and 26 more...
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MadFun's Words
clash'n'dash, sangaku, sudoku, kakuro, topology, flocabulary, gibberish, psychopathic, smash'n'bash, urbandictionary, psyche, swashbuckling and 43 more...
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to-use
lapidary, sacrosanct, stupendous, armophous, rah-rah, petty, consternation, meandering, cherry pick, garish, vacuous, agitated and 66 more...
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