enticing

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enticing

  • /ɛnˈtaɪsɪŋ/
  • /ɪnˈtaɪsɪŋ/

adjective more enticing · most enticing

  1. That entices; alluring; attractive; charming The opportunity to extinguish MAGAdom is so enticing that it has purged one of the most self-sabotaging inclinations in the American liberal’s coalition: the fractious adjudication of identity that can too often become a priority over winning elections.

    Similar: enticive, alluring, appealing, appetizing, attracting, attractive, catchy, bewitching, captivating, charming, coying, desirable · Opposite: repulsive, unalluring, unattractive, unenticing

verb

  1. gerund, participle, present present participle and gerund of entice

noun enticings

  1. enticement; temptation 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.

Thesaurus

Closest in meaning: alluring, tempting, seductive, beguiling, luring, appealing, encouraging, encourage, prompting, inducing, soliciting, drawing, attracting, inciting, inviting, attractive

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adj alluring

Españoltentador, incitante, aliciante
हिन्दीलोभन lobhan
Portuguêsaliciante, tentador, atrativo, atiçador
Françaisaguicheur
Românăseducător, tentant, încântător, atrăgător
Русскийзама́нчивый zamánčivyj, соблазни́тельный soblaznítelʹnyj

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@misc{enticing_2026,
  title = {enticing},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/enticing},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}