ENTICING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does enticing mean? 

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

1. highly attractive and able to arouse hope or desire

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• ENTICING (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 

In the year since NASA announced the seven Earth-sized planets of the TRAPPIST-1 system, scientists have been working hard to better understand these enticing worlds just 40 light-years away.

(New Clues to TRAPPIST-1 Planet Compositions, Atmospheres, NASA)

I love my love with an E, because she's enticing; I hate her with an E, because she's engaged.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

I found that the sparrow uttered none but harsh notes, whilst those of the blackbird and thrush were sweet and enticing.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Perhaps it was to this that the golden colour was due; but golden his eyes were, enticing and masterful, at the same time luring and compelling, and speaking a demand and clamour of the blood which no woman, much less Maud Brewster, could misunderstand.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)