tempting

English

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈtɛmp.tɪŋ/

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Adjective

tempting (comparative more tempting, superlative most tempting)

1. 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; […].

2. Seductive, alluring, inviting.

Synonyms

• slinky

Translations

attractive, appealing, enticing

Bulgarian: примамлив (bg) (primamliv), превлекателен (prevlekatelen) Catalan: temptador Chinese: Mandarin: 有吸引力 (zh) (xīyǐnlì)的，吸引 (zh) (xīyǐn)人的 Danish: fristende Dutch: verleidelijk (nl) Finnish: houkutteleva (fi), viehättävä (fi) French: tentant (fr) Galician: tentador German: verführerisch (de), verlockend (de), attraktiv (de) Greek: δελεαστικός (el) (deleastikós) Hungarian: csábos (hu) Italian: tentatore (it) Macedonian: примамлив m (primamliv) Norwegian: Bokmål: fristende Polish: kusicielski Portuguese: tentador (pt) Romanian: tentant (ro) Russian: соблазни́тельный (ru) (soblaznítelʹnyj), привлека́тельный (ru) (privlekátelʹnyj) Spanish: tentador (es) Ukrainian: спокусливий (spokuslyvyj)

seductive, alluring, inviting

Bulgarian: съблазнителен (bg) (sǎblaznitelen) Catalan: temptador Chinese: Mandarin: 誘人 / 诱人 (zh) (yòurén)的，誘惑 / 诱惑 (zh) (yòuhuò)的 Finnish: houkutteleva (fi), viettelevä (fi) German: verführerisch (de), verlockend (de), einladend (de), reizend (de) Hungarian: csábos (hu) Norwegian: Bokmål: fristende Polish: kusicielski Portuguese: tentador (pt) Romanian: tentant (ro) Russian: соблазни́тельный (ru) (soblaznítelʹnyj), маня́щий (ru) (manjáščij), привлека́тельный (ru) (privlekátelʹnyj) Spanish: tentador (es)

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Verb

tempting

1. present participle and gerund of tempt

Noun

tempting (plural temptings)

1. 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?