INVITING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does inviting mean? 

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

1. attractive and tempting

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• INVITING (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Attractive and tempting

Context example:

an inviting offer

Similar:

invitatory (conveying an invitation)

tantalising; tantalizing; tempting (very pleasantly inviting)

tantalising; tantalizing (arousing desire or expectation for something unattainable or mockingly out of reach)

Also:

attractive (pleasing to the eye or mind especially through beauty or charm)

Antonym:

uninviting (neither attractive nor tempting)

 Context examples 

Mercifully unconscious of what she had done, Jo sat with her nose in the air, and a revolutionary aspect which was anything but inviting.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Mrs. Elton's invitations I should have imagined any thing but inviting.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

She looked him in the eyes, her own sharply passionate and inviting.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

With a northerly breeze it lies placid and sheltered, inviting the storm-tossed craft to tack into it for rest and protection.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The refectory was a great, low-ceiled, gloomy room; on two long tables smoked basins of something hot, which, however, to my dismay, sent forth an odour far from inviting.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

At least, you should not remind your mother of inviting him.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

Sir John never came to the Dashwoods without either inviting them to dine at the park the next day, or to drink tea with them that evening.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

Still White Fang suspected; and though the meat was proffered to him with short inviting thrusts of the hand, he refused to touch it.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

On Tuesday evening I received telegrams from both Colonel Ross, the owner of the horse, and from Inspector Gregory, who is looking after the case, inviting my co-operation.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

And really the great friendship and consideration of personally associating Sophy with the joyful occasion, and inviting her to be a bridesmaid in conjunction with Miss Wickfield, demands my warmest thanks.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)