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Adjective: tempting tempting- Highly attractive and able to arouse hope or desire
"a tempting invitation" - alluring, beguiling, enticing - Very pleasantly inviting
"a tempting repast" - tantalizing, tantalising [Brit] Verb: tempt tempt- Dispose or incline or entice to
"We were tempted by the delicious-looking food" - allure - Provoke someone to do something through (often false or exaggerated) promises or persuasion
- entice, lure - Give rise to a desire by being attractive or inviting
"the window displays tempted the shoppers" - invite - Induce into action by using one's charm
- charm, influence - Try to seduce
- Try presumptuously
"St. Anthony was tempted in the desert"
See also: inviting, seductive, temptable, temptation, tempter, temptingly, temptingness Type of: arouse, bid, excite, invite, persuade, provoke, sex, shake, shake up, stimulate, stir, turn on, wind up |