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Synonyms for tempting
ˈtɛmp tɪŋtempt·ing
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Princeton's WordNet
alluring, beguiling, enticing, temptingadjective
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"
Synonyms:
alluring, tantalising, enticing, tantalizing, beguilingAntonyms:
uninviting, unseductivetantalizing, tantalising, temptingadjective
very pleasantly inviting
"a tantalizing aroma"; "a tempting repast"
Synonyms:
alluring, tantalising, enticing, tantalizing, beguilingAntonyms:
unseductive, uninviting
PPDB, the paraphrase database
List of paraphrases for "tempting":
Words popularity by usage frequency
ranking | word | |
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#1429 | trying | |
#5461 | attractive | |
#8337 | attempting | |
#12615 | appealing | |
#23055 | tempting | |
#24966 | seductive | |
#36816 | enticing | |
#40081 | alluring | |
#48443 | tantalizing | |
#79788 | beguiling | |
#114111 | tantalising |
How to use tempting in a sentence?
It’s tempting to leap in like a mother lioness and think, ‘I need to protect my child from that awful kid,’.
These findings will likely become an important part of the patient education counseling physicians provide to their patients, while it is tempting to think that only the rare patient who is a gay male would benefit from such counseling, this study makes it clear that anal intercourse is a common practice that is not limited to gay men.
Avocados are in high demand abroad and it's one of the options, another very tempting option that people are thinking about is cattle - knocking down coffee trees and planting grass for cows.
But the second part that is tempting is to say -- therefore, let's go back. Let's go back to normal -- the problem is normal wasn't working for a lot of people, over decades, and Republican and Democratic presidents have let us down and Democrats can't take it back to the '90s, any more than Conservatives can take it back to the '50s.
As technology becomes more sophisticated and people start to use their phones interactively for an increasing number of daily tasks, it would not be surprising if they also increasingly turned to electronic devices for help with personal, health and safety issues, the phone user needs to retain the power to choose what happens. Every domestic violence and sexual assault situation is different, and the phone won't know if the abuser suddenly re-enters the room, grabs the phone, or starts listening in. It's tempting to say that the phone should automatically dial 9-1-1, but that could lead to an increase in the number of accidental calls, limit emergency services' capacity to respond to actual urgent calls, and worst of all might tip off the perpetrator that his or her victim is trying to get help.
Translations for tempting
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- temptador, temptadoraCatalan, Valencian
- verlockend, verführerischGerman
- viehättävä, houkutteleva, vietteleväFinnish
- tentantFrench
- allettanteItalian
- verleidelijkDutch
- tentadorPortuguese
- tentantRomanian
- заманчивыйRussian
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