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tempting en · ADJ

Pronunciation

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  • /ˈtɛmp.tɪŋ/ (US)

Meanings

  1. Attractive, appealing, enticing.
    • It is tempting to speculate about the incentives or compulsions that might explain why anyone would take to the skies in [the] basket [of a balloon]: perhaps out of a desire to escape the gravity of this world or to get a preview of the next; […]. 2013 June 7, David Simpson, “Fantasy of navigation”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 26, page 36:
  2. Seductive, alluring, inviting.

Forms

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more tempting Degree=Cmp lexicographic
most tempting Degree=Sup lexicographic

Deriveds

untempting · temptingness · temptingly

Synonyms

slinky

Translations (54)

pt tentador (attractive, appealing, enticing) · ru привлека́тельный (attractive, appealing, enticing) · hu csábos (seductive, alluring, inviting) · ca temptador (attractive, appealing, enticing) · fi houkutteleva (seductive, alluring, inviting) · es tentador (seductive, alluring, inviting) · it tentatore (attractive, appealing, enticing) · ru привлека́тельный (seductive, alluring, inviting) · cmn 吸引人的 (attractive, appealing, enticing) · de verführerisch (seductive, alluring, inviting) · de verlockend (attractive, appealing, enticing) · id menggairahkan (seductive, alluring, inviting) · bg превлекателен (attractive, appealing, enticing) · ro tentant (attractive, appealing, enticing) · fi viehättävä (attractive, appealing, enticing) · nb fristende (attractive, appealing, enticing) · id menarik (seductive, alluring, inviting) · mk соблазнив (seductive, alluring, inviting) · de attraktiv (attractive, appealing, enticing) · de verführerisch (attractive, appealing, enticing) · id menarik (attractive, appealing, enticing) · uk спокусливий (attractive, appealing, enticing) · hi लोभन (seductive, alluring, inviting) · ru соблазни́тельный (seductive, alluring, inviting) · hi आकर्षक (seductive, alluring, inviting) · fi viettelevä (seductive, alluring, inviting) · ca temptador (seductive, alluring, inviting) · pl kusicielski (seductive, alluring, inviting) · cmn 誘人 /诱人的 (seductive, alluring, inviting) · nl verleidelijk (attractive, appealing, enticing) · de verlockend (seductive, alluring, inviting) · hi लोभन (attractive, appealing, enticing) · fr tentant (attractive, appealing, enticing) · cmn 誘惑 /诱惑的 (seductive, alluring, inviting) · da fristende (attractive, appealing, enticing) · pt tentador (seductive, alluring, inviting) · de einladend (seductive, alluring, inviting) · fi houkutteleva (attractive, appealing, enticing) · nb fristende (seductive, alluring, inviting) · hu csábos (attractive, appealing, enticing) · pl kusicielski (attractive, appealing, enticing) · mk примамлив (attractive, appealing, enticing) · bg примамлив (attractive, appealing, enticing) · gl tentador (attractive, appealing, enticing) · ro tentant (seductive, alluring, inviting) · el δελεαστικός (attractive, appealing, enticing) · de reizend (seductive, alluring, inviting) · ru маня́щий (seductive, alluring, inviting) · bg съблазнителен (seductive, alluring, inviting) · cmn 有吸引力的 (attractive, appealing, enticing) · ru соблазни́тельный (attractive, appealing, enticing) · id memikat (attractive, appealing, enticing) · es tentador (attractive, appealing, enticing) · id menggiurkan (seductive, alluring, inviting)

tempting en · NOUN

Pronunciation

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  • /ˈtɛmp.tɪŋ/ (US)

Meanings

  1. The act of subjecting somebody to temptation.
    • If God doth suffer his own people and dearest children to be exposed to Satan's temptings and winnowings; Why should any man then doubt of his childship, doubt of his own everlasting condition, and say, that he is none of the child of God because he is tempted? 1646, William Bridge, On Temptation (sermon)

Forms

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temptings Number=Plur lexicographic

tempting en · VERB

Pronunciation

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  • /ˈtɛmp.tɪŋ/ (US)

Meanings

  1. (form-of, gerund, participle, present) present participle and gerund of tempt
    form of tempt