Word Meanings - ENTICING - Book Publishers vocabulary database
That entices; alluring.
Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of ENTICING)
- Attractive
- Winning
- alluring
- tempting
- inviting
- engaging
- captivating
- fascinating
- enticing
- interesting
- charming
- pleasant
- beautiful
- agreeable
- Seducing
- Alluring
- seductive
- attractive
Related words: (words related to ENTICING)
- INVITER
One who, or that which, invites. - BEAUTIFUL
Having the qualities which constitute beauty; pleasing to the sight or the mind. A circle is more beautiful than a square; a square is more beautiful than a parallelogram. Lord Kames. Syn. -- Handsome; elegant; lovely; fair; charming; graceful; - SEDUCEMENT
1. The act of seducing. 2. The means employed to seduce, as flattery, promises, deception, etc.; arts of enticing or corrupting. Pope. - WINNOW
comp.), winpi-skauro a fan, L. ventilare to fan, to winnow; cf. L. wannus a fan for winnowing, G. wanne, OHG. wanna. . See Wind moving 1. To separate, and drive off, the chaff from by means of wind; to fan; as, to winnow grain. Ho winnoweth barley - SEDUCIBLE
Capable of being seduced; corruptible. - SEDUCING
Seductive. "Thy sweet seducing charms." Cowper. -- Se*du"cing*ly, adv. - TEMPTER
One who tempts or entices; especially, Satan, or the Devil, regarded as the great enticer to evil. "Those who are bent to do wickedly will never want tempters to urge them on." Tillotson. So glozed the Tempter, and his proem tuned. Milton. - CAPTIVATE
1. To take prisoner; to capture; to subdue. Their woes whom fortune captivates. Shak. 2. To acquire ascendancy over by reason of some art or attraction; to fascinate; to charm; as, Cleopatra captivated Antony; the orator captivated all hearts. - TEMPTING
Adapted to entice or allure; attractive; alluring; seductive; enticing; as, tempting pleasures. -- Tempt"ing*ly, adv. -- Tempt"ing*ness, n. - SEDUCER
One who, or that which, seduces; specifically, one who prevails over the chastity of a woman by enticements and persuasions. He whose firm faith no reason could remove, Will melt before that soft seducer, love. Dryden. - INVITRIFIABLE
Not admitting of being vitrified, or converted into glass. Kirwan. - ENTICING
That entices; alluring. - WINNINGNESS
The quality or state of being winning. "Winningness in style." J. Morley. - ATTRACTIVE
1. Having the power or quality of attracting or drawing; as, the attractive force of bodies. Sir I. Newton. 2. Attracting or drawing by moral influence or pleasurable emotion; alluring; inviting; pleasing. "Attractive graces." Milton. "Attractive - PLEASANT-TONGUED
Of pleasing speech. - INTERESTED
1. Having the attention engaged; having emotion or passion excited; as, an interested listener. 2. Having an interest; concerned in a cause or in consequences; liable to be affected or prejudiced; as, an interested witness. - WINNER
One who wins, or gains by success in competition, contest, or gaming. - PLEASANTNESS
The state or quality of being pleasant. - CHARMLESS
Destitute of charms. Swift. - WINNOWING
The act of one who, or that which, winnows. - DISINTERESTING
Uninteresting. "Disinteresting passages." Bp. Warburton. - METEMPTOSIS
The suppression of a day in the calendar to prevent the date of the new moon being set a day too late, or the suppression of the bissextile day once in 134 years. The opposite to this is the proemptosis, or the addition of a day every 330 years, - DISAGREEABLENESS
The state or quality of being; disagreeable; unpleasantness. - REENGAGEMENT
A renewed or repeated engagement. - AUTHENTICITY
1. The quality of being authentic or of established authority for truth and correctness. 2. Genuineness; the quality of being genuine or not corrupted from the original. Note: In later writers, especially those on the evidences of Christianity, - CONVENTICLING
Belonging or going to, or resembling, a conventicle. Conventicling schools . . . set up and taught secretly by fanatics. South. - UNINTERESTED
1. Not interested; not having any interest or property in; having nothing at stake; as, to be uninterested in any business. 2. Not having the mind or the passions engaged; as, uninterested in a discourse or narration. - MENTICULTURAL
Of or pertaining to mental culture; serving to improve or strengthen the mind. - APPRENTICESHIP
1. The service or condition of an apprentice; the state in which a person is gaining instruction in a trade or art, under legal agreement. 2. The time an apprentice is serving (sometimes seven years, as from the age of fourteen to twenty-one). - TWINNER
One who gives birth to twins; a breeder of twins. Tusser.