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English
Pronunciation
Adjective
enticing (comparative more enticing, superlative most enticing)
- That entices; alluring; attractive; charming
- Synonyms: enticing, (formal, obsolete) illecebrous; see also Thesaurus:attractive
- Antonyms: repulsive, unalluring, unattractive, unenticing
Translations
alluring
- Bulgarian: привлекателен (bg) (privlekatelen), съблазнителен (bg) (sǎblaznitelen)
- Catalan: atractiu (ca), temptador, estimulant (ca)
- Dutch: verlokkelijk (nl)
- Finnish: viettelevä (fi), houkutteleva (fi)
- French: aguicheur (fr)
- Galician: tentador
- Ottoman Turkish: جاذب (câzib)
- Portuguese: aliciante, tentador (pt) m, atrativo (pt) m, atiçador
- Romanian: seducător (ro), tentant (ro), încântător (ro), atrăgător (ro)
- Russian: зама́нчивый (ru) (zamánčivyj), соблазни́тельный (ru) (soblaznítelʹnyj)
- Scottish Gaelic: togarrach
- Spanish: tentador (es) m, incitante (es), aliciante
- Swedish: lockande (sv), frestande (sv)
- Ukrainian: спокусливий (spokuslyvyj)
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Verb
enticing
- present participle and gerund of entice
References
- “enticing”, in The Century Dictionary , New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
- “enticing”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
Noun
enticing (plural enticings)
- enticement; temptation
1851 November 14, Herman Melville, “The Chase—First Day”, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC, page 604:On each soft side [of the White Whale]—coincident with the parted swell, that but once leaving him, then flowed so wide away—on each bright side, the whale shed off enticings.