enticing
Meaning of enticing
- attractive or tempting; alluring.
an enticing prospect
- attract or tempt by offering pleasure or advantage.
a show which should entice a new audience into the theatre
the treat is offered to entice the dog to eat
Middle English (also in the sense ‘incite, provoke’; formerly also as intice ): from Old French enticier, probably from a base meaning ‘set on fire’, based on an alteration of Latin titio ‘firebrand’.
Information about enticing
- The plural form of enticing is: enticings.
- Languages in which enticing is used:
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Hyphenation of enticing
en-tic-ing
- It consists of 3 syllables and 8 chars.
- enticing is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables
enticing synonyms
Meaning alluring:
Meaning entice or try to entice (someone) to do something that they find attractive but know to be wrong or unwise:
Meaning powerfully attract or charm; tempt:
Meaning tempt (a person or animal) to do something or to go somewhere, especially by offering some form of reward:
Meaning cause (someone) to have a liking for or interest in something:
Meaning (of an action or situation) tend to elicit (a particular reaction or response) or to tempt (someone) to do something:
Meaning induce (someone) to do something through reasoning or argument:
Meaning cause (someone) to believe firmly in the truth of something:
Meaning persuade (someone) to do something by means of deception or flattery:
Meaning succeed in persuading or leading (someone) to do something:
Meaning charm or enchant (someone), often in a deceptive way:
Meaning persuade (someone) to do something by sustained coaxing or flattery:
Meaning use flattery or coaxing in order to persuade someone to do something or give one something:
Meaning gently and persistently persuade (someone) to do something:
Meaning seek the favour, support, or custom of:
Meaning entice (someone) to do or believe something inadvisable or foolhardy:
Meaning lure or entice (a person or animal) away from their intended course, typically into a trap:
Meaning pleasing or appealing to the senses:
Meaning attractive or interesting:
Meaning attractive:
Meaning offering the promise of an attractive or enjoyable experience:
Meaning having glamour:
Meaning capable of attracting and holding interest; charming:
Meaning tempting and attractive; enticing:
Meaning delightfully charming or attractive:
Meaning very pleasant or attractive:
Meaning extremely interesting:
Meaning arousing one's curiosity or interest; fascinating:
Meaning tormenting or teasing with the sight or promise of something unobtainable:
Meaning exhibiting or relating to magnetism:
Meaning too attractive and tempting to be resisted:
Translation of enticing
- French: séduisant
- Spanish: seductor, seductora
- German: verführerisch
Words that rhyme with enticing
Macing, acing, afacing, aggracing, antiracing, backspacing, belacing, boldfacing, bracing, catfacing, chacing, commonplacing, counterbracing, defacing, disgracing, dispacing, displacing, effacing, embacing, embracing, emplacing, enfacing, engracing, enlacing, enracing, facing, footracing, furnacing, gracing, grimacing, horseracing, inlacing, interembracing, interfacing, interlacing, interspacing, intertracing, lacing, letterspacing, macing, manacing, medevacing, menacing, microspacing, misplacing, misspacing, mistracing, necklacing, nonfacing, nonmenacing