flirtatious
/flɜːˈteɪʃəs
/adjective
1Behaving in such a way as to suggest a playful sexual attraction to someone: she was beautiful and very flirtatious...
- It's also playful, flirtatious and often raucous.
- His flirtatious relationship with Mary suggests he's a man who has found his ideal partner and is determined to wear down her resistance.
- She wasn't playful or flirtatious, she simply held him to her.
Synonyms
coquettish, flirty, provocative, seductive, inviting, amorous, kittenish, coy, arch, teasing, playful, frisky, flighty, skittish, dallying, philandering
informal come-hither, vampish
1.1Expressing a playful sexual attraction: a flirtatious smile...
- There was a wicked grin on his face, and Marla couldn't help the flirtatious and alluring smile she sent back to him.
- Sick now of the confusion and discomfort Simone took charge, ‘Ok, Kyle, Tay, you two can go up against me and Josh’ she paused briefly to give the dirty blonde haired boy a flirtatious smile.
- With its swirled flashy design and swishy beaded fringe, the lampshades are like a flirtatious smile in a roomful of strangers, bold and impossible to ignore.
Derivatives
flirtatiously
- I was trying to get into the VIP room at a club recently and this guy blocked my way, really flirtatiously.
- Brushing her brunette locks against her soft-skinned shoulders, she swayed her beautiful head flirtatiously - swaying quite a lot, it has to be said - as she indulged me in the briefest of conversation.
- Skittle-shaped and with brown eyes twinkling, he jabbers away almost flirtatiously, a testament to the extraordinary energy that he invests in everything.
flirtatiousness
/ noun ...- The instructions are proposals, invitations - but there's undoubtedly an element of flirtatiousness and temptation in what I propose - people have to make their choices about what they'll do and what they won't do.
- Her eyes became a tumult of lascivious flirtatiousness and her lips went all rude.
- Gerald's moral as well as more conventional education is put in the hands of three very different young men, two of whom are more distracted by Margot's flirtatiousness than by Gerald's zoological enthusiasm.