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SEDUCTIVE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does seductive mean?
• SEDUCTIVE (adjective)
The adjective SEDUCTIVE has 1 sense:
1. tending to entice into a desired action or state
Familiarity information: SEDUCTIVE used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Tending to entice into a desired action or state
Similar:
alluring; beguiling; enticing; tempting (highly attractive and able to arouse hope or desire)
corrupting (seducing into corrupt practices)
insidious (beguiling but harmful)
teasing (arousing sexual desire without intending to satisfy it)
Also:
attractive (pleasing to the eye or mind especially through beauty or charm)
sexy (marked by or tending to arouse sexual desire or interest)
Antonym:
unseductive (not seductive)
Context examples
A disorder characterized by an enduring pattern of excessively intense and superficial emotionality, attention seeking behavior, seductive appearance and speech, self dramatization and/or theatrical behavior.
(Histrionic Personality Disorder, NCI Thesaurus)
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