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en·tice

 (ĕn-tīs′)
tr.v. en·ticed, en·tic·ing, en·tic·es
To attract (someone), usually to do something, by arousing hope, interest, or desire: The good review enticed me to see the movie. See Synonyms at lure.
[Middle English enticen, from Old French enticier, to instigate, possibly from Vulgar Latin *intītiāre, to set afire : Latin in-, in; see en-1 + Latin tītiō, firebrand.]
en·tice′ment n.
en·tic′er n.
en·tic′ing·ly adv.
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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Adj.1.enticing - highly attractive and able to arouse hope or desireenticing - highly attractive and able to arouse hope or desire; "an alluring prospect"; "her alluring smile"; "the voice was low and beguiling"; "difficult to say no to an enticing advertisement"; "a tempting invitation"
alluring, beguiling, tempting
seductive - tending to entice into a desired action or state
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enticing

Collins Thesaurus of the English Language – Complete and Unabridged 2nd Edition. 2002 © HarperCollins Publishers 1995, 2002

enticing

adjective
1. Pleasing to the eye or mind:
attractive, bewitching, enchanting, engaging, fascinating, fetching, glamorous, lovely, prepossessing, pretty, sweet, taking, tempting, winning, winsome.
2. Tending to seduce:
alluring, bewitching, come-hither, inveigling, inviting, luring, seductive, siren, tempting, witching.
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Translations
جَذّاب، مُغْرٍ
fristendelokkende
lokkandi

enticing

[ɪnˈtaɪsɪŋ] ADJ → tentador, atractivo
Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

enticing

[ɪnˈtaɪsɪŋ] adj
[prospect] → séduisant(e); [offer] → séduisant(e)
It is hardly an enticing prospect → La perspective n'est guère séduisante.
[food] → alléchant(e)
Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

enticing

adj → verlockend; look → verführerisch
Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

enticing

[ɪnˈtaɪsɪŋ] adj → allettante, attraente
Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

entice

(inˈtais) verb
to attract or tempt. Goods are displayed in shop windows to entice people into the shop.
enˈticement noun
enˈticing adjective
attractive. an enticing smell.
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He gave his own goats just sufficient food to keep them alive, but fed the strangers more abundantly in the hope of enticing them to stay with him and of making them his own.
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I found that the sparrow uttered none but harsh notes, whilst those of the blackbird and thrush were sweet and enticing.
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Geneva is filled with pretty shops, and the shops are filled with the most enticing gimacrackery, but if one enters one of these places he is at once pounced upon, and followed up, and so persecuted to buy this, that, and the other thing, that he is very grateful to get out again, and is not at all apt to repeat his experiment.
There is a wide and lengthy court, glittering with the most wickedly enticing shops, which is roofed with glass, high aloft overhead, and paved with soft-toned marbles laid in graceful figures; and at night when the place is brilliant with gas and populous with a sauntering and chatting and laughing multitude of pleasure-seekers, it is a spectacle worth seeing.
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Then a certain pensiveness fell over her beauty which dimmed yet intensified it; sharp angles, glittering points, melted away into curves and enticing gleams.
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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.
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