ALLURING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does alluring mean? 

• ALLURING (adjective)
  The adjective ALLURING has 1 sense:

1. highly attractive and able to arouse hope or desire

  Familiarity information: ALLURING used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ALLURING (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Highly attractive and able to arouse hope or desire

Synonyms:

alluring; beguiling; enticing; tempting

Context example:

a tempting invitation

Similar:

seductive (tending to entice into a desired action or state)

 Context examples 

It was not, I must confess, a very alluring prospect.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

There was nothing alluring in the pictures she drew, and he was aware of a dull pain of disappointment and of a sharper ache of love for her.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

God, in pity, made man beautiful and alluring, after his own image; but my form is a filthy type of yours, more horrid even from the very resemblance.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

The air of wicked grace: of triumph, in which, strange to say, there was yet something feminine and alluring: with which she reclined upon the seat between us, and looked at me, was worthy of a cruel Princess in a Legend.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

The prospect was alluring.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

The touch of his hand on hers was vastly more potent than any word he could utter, the impact of his strength on her imagination was more alluring than the printed poems and spoken passions of a thousand generations of lovers.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)