tempting
English
Pronunciation
- (US) IPA(key): /ˈtɛmp.tɪŋ/
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Adjective
tempting (comparative more tempting, superlative most tempting)
- Attractive, appealing, enticing.
- 2013 June 7, David Simpson, “Fantasy of navigation”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 26, page 36:
- It is tempting to speculate about the incentives or compulsions that might explain why anyone would take to the skies in [the] basket [of a balloon]: perhaps out of a desire to escape the gravity of this world or to get a preview of the next; […].
- Seductive, alluring, inviting.
Translations
attractive, appealing, enticing
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seductive, alluring, inviting
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Noun
tempting (plural temptings)
- The act of subjecting somebody to temptation.
- 1646, William Bridge, On Temptation (sermon)
- If God doth suffer his own people and dearest children to be exposed to Satan's temptings and winnowings; Why should any man then doubt of his childship, doubt of his own everlasting condition, and say, that he is none of the child of God because he is tempted?
- 1646, William Bridge, On Temptation (sermon)
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