tempting
/'temptiɳ/
Definition
- Adjective:
- Appealing and attractive, often in a way that makes one want to have or do something, even if it might be unwise: Describes something that strongly attracts or entices, creating a desire to possess, experience, or yield to it.
- Pleasantly inviting or alluring: Describes something that is very agreeable and draws one in.
Examples of Usage
- Adjective:
- The display of desserts in the bakery window was very tempting.
- He received a tempting job offer from a rival company.
- It was a tempting idea to skip work and go to the beach.
Advanced Usage
- "to be tempting fate/providence": to act in a way that is recklessly risky, as if daring something bad to happen.
- Driving that fast on wet roads is tempting fate.
Variants and Related Words
- Tempt (verb): To entice or attract someone to do something, often something they should not do.
- The ads are designed to tempt consumers.
- Temptation (noun): The desire to do something, especially something wrong or unwise, or the thing that causes such a desire.
- He resisted the temptation to eat another cookie.
Synonyms
- Alluring: Powerfully and mysteriously attractive or fascinating.
- Enticing: Attractive or tempting; alluring.
- Seductive: Tempting and attractive; enticing.
- Inviting: Appealing; attractive.
Related Idioms
- A tempting prospect: An appealing or attractive possibility for the future.
- Early retirement is a tempting prospect for many.
Adjective
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very pleasantly inviting
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a tantalizing aroma
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a tempting repast
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highly attractive and able to arouse hope or desire
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an alluring prospect
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her alluring smile
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the voice was low and beguiling
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difficult to say no to an enticing advertisement
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a tempting invitation
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