Enticing

Definition: Enticing

Enticing

Adjective

1. 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".

Date "enticing" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1591. (references)

Synonyms: Enticing

Synonyms: alluring (adj), beguiling (adj), tempting (adj). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Pain	Attractive; inviting, prepossessing, engaging; winning, winsome; taking, fascinating, captivating, killing; seducing, seductive; heart-robbing, alluring, enticing; appetizing; (exciting); cheering; bewitching; enchanting, entrancing,
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Enticing

English words defined with "enticing": allurement, alluring ♦ beguiling ♦ enticement, Enticingly ♦ Gleek ♦ Illecebrous, invitation ♦ leading astray, leading off ♦ Seducement, seduction, solicitation, Suppalpation ♦ temptation, tempting. (references)

Specialty definitions using "enticing": Adultery. (references)

Etymologies containing "enticing": Entice. (references)

Domain	Title
Books	Allergy-Free Cooking: Over 50 Enticing and Tasty Recipes That Avoid Known Food Problems (reference) Come to Texas: Enticing Immigrants, 1865-1915 (Centennial Series of the Association of Former Students, Texas A&m University, No. 94) (reference) Cooking With Herbs Through the Seasons: Enticing Recipes for All the Year Round (reference) Easy and Enticing Meals (reference) Enticing Emily (Temptation , No 684) (reference) (more book examples)

Music	Enticing Rhythms (reference) Exotic Excitement of Enticing Belly Dance Music (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		Often, this is in the form of advertisements in which enticing promises are made, and patients then become even more demoralized when promised benefits fail to materialize. (references)
Business		For an individual company interested in entering the Chinese market, disappointing results frequently follow the enticing possibilities. (references)
Economic History	Malaysia	There is great interest among the private colleges to introduce additional U.S. programs, especially from more reputable universities here, but there has not been much success in enticing better U.S. universities here. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

"Enticing" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 71.26% of the time. "Enticing" is used about 87 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Lexical Verb (-ing form)	71.26%	62	42,755
Adjective (general or positive)	27.59%	24	71,196
Noun (proper)	1.15%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	87	N/A

Hypenated Usage
	Ending with "enticing": bird-enticing.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "enticing"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		tërheqës (absorbing, absorptive, adorable, alluring, appealing, attractable, attractive, catchy, charismatic, comely, cunning, cute, drawer, dreamy, engaging, engrossing, fetching, interesting, inviting, jolly, likable, likeable, nice, personable, pleasing, pretty, showy, sightly, winsome), joshës (alluring, attractive, captivating, charming, engaging, fetching, glamorous, glamourous, luscious, seducer, seductive, sexy, tempter, tempting, winning, winsome). (various references)

Arabic		‏ملفت للإنتباه, ‏مغو (inductor, insidious, seducer, seductive, tempting), ‏مغري (seductive, tempting), ‏مغر (alluring, inviting, seducer, seducing, seductive, tempting), ‏جذاب (allurement, alluring, appealing, attractive, becoming, captivating, catching, catchy, charming, cute, desirable, ducky, engaging, fascinating, fetching, fine, inviting, magnetic, magnetizing, nice, picturesquely, pleasant, prepossessing, pretty, seductive, sweet, taking, tasty). (various references)

Bulgarian		съблазнителен (alluring, appetizing, inviting, seductive, tempting, yummy), привлекателен (alluring, appealing, attractive, catching, catchy, congenial, cute, debonair, desirable, engaging, fetching, ingratiating, interesting, inviting, lickerish, likable, likeable, likely, lovable, pleasing, prepossessing, pretty, seductive, sightly, taking, tempting, winsome, yummy). (various references)

Chinese		诱惑 (Entice, Enticed, Enticement, Provocative, seduce, seduced, Seducing, tempt, temptation, Tempted, tempting). (various references)

Czech		lákající. (various references)

Dutch		lekker (alluring, attractive, nice, tasty, tempting). (various references)

Esperanto		franda (alluring, attractive, tempting). (various references)

French		séduisant (engaging, enthralling, entrancing), attrayant, attirant (engaging), alléchant. (various references)

German		lockend (alluring, clucking, curling, tempting, wooing). (various references)

Greek		δελεαστικόσ (alluring, seductive, siren, tempting). (various references)

Hebrew		מלבב (attractive, cordial, endearing), מצו�"�" לב (alluring, captivating, charming, enthralling, fascinating), פתוי (enticement, flat, lure, persuasion, seduction, temptation). (various references)

Hungarian		csábító (alluring, debaucher, inviting, luring, persuasive, persuasory, seducer, seductive, tempter, tempting). (various references)

Italian		seducente (attractive, catching, infatuating, seductive, tempting), attraente (attractive, catching, catchy, charming, cute, engaging, fetching, glamorous, glamourous, inviting, killing, likable, likeable, lovely, sexy, taking, winsome), allettante (alluring, attractive, luring, tantalizing, tempting). (various references)

Korean		� 혹함. (various references)

Manx		miolagh (inducement, lure, seducing, temptation, tempting), breigagh (alluring, coaxing, persuasive, wheedling). (various references)

Pig Latin		enticingay

Portuguese		tentação (seduction, snare, temptation), atraente (appealing, attractable, attractive, bewitching, captivating, catch, charming, cute, dinky, engaging, enthralling, fetching, ingratiating, interests paid on, inviting, lovely, magnetic, nice, nice-looking, pinup, prepossessing, pretty, sexy, striking, stunner, taking, tempting, winning, winsome, yummy). (various references)

Romanian		seducãtor (fascinating, seducer, seductive, seductively, tempting, winning), ispititor (attractive, cajoling, inviting, taking, tempting), îmbietor (inviting). (various references)

Russian		соблазнительный (alluring, desirable, fetching, pinup, seductive, suggestive, tempting). (various references)

Scottish		t� ladh (alluring, caressing, hushing). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		namamljen. (various references)

Spanish		tentador (inviting, luring, tempter, tempting). (various references)

Swedish		förledande (plausible, seduction). (various references)

Turkish		işveli (coquette, coquettish), fettan, cazip (alluring, appealing, attracting, attractive, catching, catchy, conspicuous, endearing, inviting, piquant, taking, tempting), cazibeli (attractive, charming, prepossessing), baştan çıkarıcı (languorous, seductive, tempting), ayartıcı (beguiling, corrupting, seductive, tempting). (various references)

Ukranian		спокусливий (alluring, aphrodisiac, desirable, fetching, glittering, pin up, piquant, provocative, provocatory, seductive, tempting, wooing). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Date	Source	Colossians Chapter 2, Verse 4
Greek (transliterated)	250 BC	Septuagint	Touto de legw ina mh tiV umaV paralogizhtai en piqanologia
Latin	405	Vulgate	Hoc autem dico ut nemo vos decipiat in subtilitate sermonum
Middle English	1395	Wyclif	For this thing Y seie, that no man disseyue you in heiythe of wordis.
Renaissance English	1526	Tyndale	This I saye lest eny man shuld begyle you with entysinge wordes.
Jacobean English	1611	King James	And this I say, lest any man should beguile you with enticing words.
Victorian English	1833	Webster	And this I say, lest any man should deceive you with enticing words.
Basic English	1964	Ogden	I say this so that you may not be turned away by any deceit of words.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Language	Colossians Chapter 2, Verse 4
Cebuano	¶ Gisulti ko kini aron kamo dili malimbungan ni bisan kinsa pinaagi sa mga pulong nga makabibihag.
Chinese	我說這話、免得有人 �"� 花言巧語迷惑 � 們。
Croatian	To govorim zato da vas tko ne prevari zavodljivim rijeèima.
Danish	Dette siger jeg, for at ingen skal bedrage eder med lokkende Tale.
Dutch	En dit zeg ik, opdat niet iemand u misleide met beweegredenen, die een schijn hebben.
Finnish	Tämän minä sanon, ettei kukaan teitä pettäisi suostuttelevilla puheilla.
French	Je dis cela afin que personne ne vous trompe par des discours séduisants.
German	Ich sage aber davon, auf daß euch niemand betrüge mit unvernünftigen Reden.
Hungarian	Ezt pedig azért mondom, hogy valaki titeket rá ne szedjen hitetõ beszéddel.
Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari	Saya memberitahukan ini supaya kalian jangan ditipu oleh siapa pun juga yang bermulut manis kepadamu.
Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama	Aku mengatakan ini, supaya seorang pun tiada dapat memperdayakan kamu dengan perkataan yang manis.
Italian	Dico questo perché nessuno vi inganni con argomenti seducenti,
Latvian	Bet es jums saku, lai neviens jûs nepieviï ar daiïrunîgâm runâm;
Maori	¶ Na i korero ai ahau i tenei, kei kumea ketia koutou e te korero reka a te tangata.
Norwegian	Dette sier jeg forat ingen skal dåre eder ved lokkende tale.
Portuguese	Digo isto, para que ninguém vos engane com palavras persuasivas.
Rumanian	Spun lucrul acesta, pentruca nimeni sq nu vq knwele prin vorbiri amqgitoare.
Russian	ьФП ЗПЧПТА С �"МС ФПЗП, ЮФП�'Щ ЛФП-ОЙ�'Х�"Ш ОЕ � ТЕМШУФЙМ ЧБУ ЧЛТБ�"ЮЙЧЩНЙ УМПЧБНЙ;
Shuar	¶ Atumin Chíkich shuar Niisháa chichamjai shiir chichartamas anankramawarain tusan nuna Tájarme.
Spanish	Digo esto para que nadie os engañe con falsos argumentos persuasivos.
Swahili	Basi, nawaambieni, msikubali kudanganywa na mtu yeyote kwa maneno ya uongo hata kama ni ya kuvutia sana.
Swedish	Detta säger jag, för att ingen skall bedraga eder med skenfagert tal.
Uma	¶ Patuju-ku mpo'uli' -kokoi toi-e, bona neo' -koi ma'ala rabagiu tauna hante lolita-ra to mpo'oluhi-koi.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "enticing": enticingly. (additional references)
	Words ending with "enticing": apprenticing, prenticing. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Enticing" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: entactin, entaing, enticin, Entrikin, inticing. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "enticing" (pronounced entī"sing)
4	-ī" s i ng	icing, pricing, repricing, slicing, spicing, splicing.
3	-s i ng	accessing, acquiescing, addressing, advancing, affixing, amassing, annexing, announcing, assessing, balancing, basing, blessing, bouncing, boxing, bracing, busing, bussing, buttressing, bypassing, canvassing, caressing, casing, ceasing, chasing, classing, coalescing, coaxing, coercing, collapsing, commencing, compressing, condensing, conferencing, confessing, conversing, convincing, coursing, crisscrossing, crossing, cursing, cussing, dancing, debasing, decreasing, defacing, denouncing, depressing, diagnosing, digressing, disbursing, discussing, dismissing, dispensing, dispersing, displacing, distancing, distressing, divorcing, dosing, dousing, dowsing, dressing, eclipsing, effacing, embarrassing, embracing, encompassing, endorsing, enforcing, engrossing, enhancing, erasing, expensing, experiencing, expressing, facing, faxing, fencing, financing, fixing, flexing, focusing, forcing, freelancing, fundraising, fussing, gassing, glancing, greasing, grimacing, grossing, grousing, guessing, hairdressing, harassing, harnessing, hissing, horsing, impressing, increasing, indexing, inducing, influencing, intermixing, introducing, invoicing, kissing, Lancing, lapsing, leasing, lensing, licensing, loosing, massing, menacing, mensing, messing, mincing, missing, mixing, noticing, nursing, obsessing, oppressing, outdistancing, outpacing, outsourcing, overproducing, pacing, parsing, passing, perplexing, piecing, piercing, placing, policing, possessing, pouncing, practicing, prancing, prejudicing, pressing, processing, producing, professing, progressing, promising, pronouncing, pulsing, racing, reassessing, rebalancing, recessing, redressing, reducing, referencing, refinancing, refocusing, rehearsing, reimbursing, reinforcing, reintroducing, rejoicing, relapsing, relaxing, releasing, reminiscing, renouncing, replacing, repressing, reprocessing, reproducing, repulsing, repurchasing, resurfacing, retracing, reversing, rinsing, romancing, sacrificing, seducing, sensing, sentencing, sequencing, servicing, showcasing, silencing, sluicing, sourcing, spacing, sprucing, stressing, subleasing, suppressing, surfacing, surpassing, taxing, teleconferencing, tossing, tracing, traipsing, traversing, trespassing, trouncing, unceasing, unconvincing, underpricing, unpromising, vexing, videoconferencing, voicing, waltzing, waxing, wincing, wissing, witnessing, xeroxing.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "c-e-g-i-i-n-n-t"
	-2 letters: citing, ignite, incite, intine, tieing, tining.
	-3 letters: genic, genii, icing, tinge.
	-4 letters: cent, cine, cite, etic, gent, gien, inti, nice, nine, nite, tine, ting.
	-5 letters: cig, eng, gen, get, gie, gin, git, ice, inn, net, nit, teg, ten, tic, tie, tin.
	Words containing the letters "c-e-g-i-i-n-n-t"
	+1 letter: antigenic, incepting, infecting, injecting.
	+2 letters: conceiting, enticingly, extincting, gentamicin, inflecting, inspecting, intragenic, meningitic, prenticing, reinciting, sectioning, stenciling, thickening, unexciting.
	+3 letters: christening, cointerring, coinventing, enunciating, geanticline, gentamicins, interacting, interceding, interfacing, interlacing, intrenching, linecasting, magnificent, necrotizing, recognition, reindicting, reinducting, reinfecting, reinjecting, scientizing, stencilling, thickenings.
	+4 letters: antigenicity, antimagnetic, apprenticing, ascertaining, centralising, centralizing, centrifuging, christenings, cinematizing, concertizing, concretizing, congeniality, deracinating, disinfecting, emancipating, geanticlines, incinerating, incrementing, intelligence, intercepting, intercutting, interdicting, interfacings, intergeneric, interjecting, interlocking, intersecting, interspacing, introjecting, isoantigenic, linecastings, nonantigenic, noncognitive, oncogenicity, palingenetic, precognition, recognitions, reconvicting, reinspecting, stringencies, syncretising, syncretizing.
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