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enticing (comparative more enticing, superlative most enticing)
- That entices; alluring; attractive; charming
Synonyms: (rare) enticive; see also Thesaurus:attractive
Antonyms: repulsive, unalluring, unattractive, unenticing- 2024 July 31, Luke Winkie, “My Rousing Night at “White Dudes for Harris””, in Slate[1]:
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.
- 2024 July 31, Luke Winkie, “My Rousing Night at “White Dudes for Harris””, in Slate[1]:
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
- Hindi: लोभन (hi) (lobhan)
- 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)
- Turkish:
Ottoman Turkish: جاذب (câzib) - Ukrainian: спокусливий (spokuslyvyj)
enticing
- present participle and gerund of entice
- William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “enticing”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
- “enticing”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
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.
- 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: