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Adjective tempting has 2 senses
- alluring, beguiling, enticing, tempting - 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"
Antonym: unseductive (indirect, via seductive)
- tantalizing, tantalising, tempting - very pleasantly inviting; "a tantalizing aroma"; "a tempting repast"
Antonym: uninviting (indirect, via inviting)
Verb tempt has 6 senses
- tempt, allure - dispose or incline or entice to; "We were tempted by the delicious-looking food"
--1 is one way to invite, bid
Sample sentence:
They tempt him to write the letter
- entice, lure, tempt - provoke someone to do something through (often false or exaggerated) promises or persuasion; "He lured me into temptation"
--2 is one way to provoke, stimulate
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s somebody
Somebody ----s somebody into V-ing something
- tempt, invite - give rise to a desire by being attractive or inviting; "the window displays tempted the shoppers"
--3 is one way to stimulate, shake, shake up, excite, stir
Sample sentence:
Something ----s somebody
- charm, influence, tempt - induce into action by using one's charm; "She charmed him into giving her all his money"
--4 is one way to persuade
Sample sentence:
They tempt him to write the letter
- tempt - try to seduce
--5 is one way to arouse, sex, excite, turn on, wind up
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s somebody
- tempt - try presumptuously; "St. Anthony was tempted in the desert"
--6 is one way to persuade
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s somebody
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