enticing

English

WOTD – 24 September 2007

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɛnˈtaɪsɪŋ/, /ɪnˈtaɪsɪŋ/

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Adjective

enticing (comparative more enticing, superlative most enticing)

1. 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.

Derived terms

• enticingly
• enticingness

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)

Verb

enticing

1. present participle and gerund of entice

References

• 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.

Noun

enticing (plural enticings)

1. 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.