Synonyms for intriguing
in·trigu·ing

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1. intriguingadjective

   Synonyms:
   fascinating, attractive, interesting

2. intriguingadjective

   Causing a desire to know more; mysterious.

   Synonyms:
   attractive, fascinating, interesting

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1. intriguing

   Synonyms:
   adroit, artful, crafty, cunning, deceitful, designing, diplomatic, foxy, insincere, knowing, maneuvering, sharp, shrewd, sly, subtle, tricky, wily

   Antonyms:
   aboveboard, artless, candid, fair, frank, guileless, honest, impartial, ingenuous, innocent, naive, open, simple, sincere, straightforward, transparent, truthful, unbiased, unprejudiced, unreserved, unsophisticated

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1. challenging, intriguingadjective

   disturbingly provocative

   "an intriguing smile"

   Synonyms:
   challenging, ambitious, thought-provoking

   Antonyms:
   unprovocative, unprovoking, uninteresting

2. intriguingadjective

   capable of arousing interest or curiosity

   "our team came up with some most intriguing finds"

   Synonyms:
   challenging

   Antonyms:
   uninteresting, unprovoking, unprovocative

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1. intriguingadjective

   Synonyms:
   cunning, crafty, artful, sly, wily, astute, subtle, insidious, designing, arch, deceitful, trickish, TRICKY, crooked, diplomatic, politic, foxy, snaky, machiavelian

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1. intriguingadjective

   Synonyms:
   scheming, machiavelian, wily

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1. List of paraphrases for "intriguing":

   fascinating, enigmatic, puzzling, interesting, exciting, mysterious, riveting

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1. Michael Roman:

   I think Neptune is itself very intriguing to many of us because we still know so little about it, this all points towards a more complicated picture of Neptune's atmosphere and how it changes with time.

2. Adamo Macri:

   Speaking of poison, unlike processed food, which is bad to consume, art should be the polar opposite: it should be over-processed to the point of being dangerous. To be deemed subversive, and intriguing to the eye and intellect, it must induce some form and degree of disruption. In that perspective, art is always safe, despite of idiotic censorship, as long as you don't eat it.”

3. Pablo Larrain:

   She can be very mysterious and very fragile and ultimately very strong as well, which is what we need, i think she's going to do something stunning and intriguing at the same time.

4. Laure Segurel:

   A lot of primate species... also have the differences of being A, being B, being AB, whether it's a great ape or a new world monkey, it's quite intriguing that the differences have been found or maintained in so many different species.

5. David Hellerstein:

   To me the most intriguing advance( of the study) is that it is a very different type of treatment than has been traditionally used for alcohol addiction, therefore, it may open new avenues for significant progress with this devastating condition.