单词 | seductive |
释义 | seductiveadj.ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > disregard for truth, falsehood > lack of truth, falsity > [adjective] > leading to error stumblingc1425 seducive1774 seductive1782 1782 J. Brown Compend. View Nat. & Revealed Relig. (1796) iv. i. 249 If Christ be not the Most High God, the language of scripture is most obscure, seductive, impious, and absurd. 2. Alluring, enticing, winning. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > attractiveness > [adjective] gracious1340 glorious skinnyc1400 drawing1435 gracefulc1449 attrayant1477 well-favoured1539 alluring1567 graceda1586 attracting1589 attractive1592 winning1596 appealing1598 taking1603 allicient1613 enchantinga1616 motive1615 temptinga1616 allurant1631 catchinga1640 gaining1642 canny1643 charmful1656 charming1664 mignon1671 disarminga1718 prepossessing1737 seducing1749 seductive176. eye-catching1770 sweet1779 catchy1784 attaching1785 engaging1816 cute1834 cunning1843 taky1854 cynosural1855 smart1860 fetching1880 seductious1883 fruity1900 barry1923 hot stuff1928 swoony1934 dishy1961 dolly1964 jiggy1996 aegyo2007 176. J. Langhorne Sun-flower & Ivy i, in Fables of Flora x Go, splendid sycophant! no more Display thy soft seductive arts! 1809–10 S. T. Coleridge Friend (1865) 19 One of the most seductive arguments of infidelity.., asserting the lawfulness of deceit for a good purpose. 1824 T. F. Dibdin Libr. Compan. 745 The seductive charms of poetry. 1856 W. A. Butler Serm. 2nd Ser. xxiv. 348 Every seductive companion who would blind your eyes to this awful fact, is but the active minister of Satan. 1871 G. H. Napheys Prevention & Cure Dis. i. iii. 114 The seductive pleasures of opium-eating. 1878 W. E. H. Lecky Hist. Eng. 18th Cent. II. vii. 430 His manners in private life were eminently seductive and insinuating. 1908 Outlook 26 Sept. 395/2 It owes something of its beauty to the seductive setting of an autumn morning. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online June 2018). < adj.176. |
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