alluring
Meaning of alluring
adjective
- powerfully and mysteriously attractive or fascinating; seductive.
the town offers alluring shops and restaurants
- powerfully attract or charm; tempt.
will sponsors really be allured by such opportunities?
late Middle English (in the sense ‘tempt, entice’): from Old French aleurier ‘attract’, from a- (from Latin ad ‘to’) + luere ‘a lure’ (originally a falconry term).
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Hyphenation of alluring
al-lur-ing
- It consists of 3 syllables and 8 chars.
- alluring is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables
alluring synonyms
Meaning beguiling:
Meaning cause (someone) to have a liking for or interest in something:
Meaning tempt (a person or animal) to do something or to go somewhere, especially by offering some form of reward:
Meaning attract or tempt by offering pleasure or advantage:
Meaning entice or try to entice (someone) to do something that they find attractive but know to be wrong or unwise:
Meaning attract and hold the interest and attention of; charm:
Meaning attract (someone) to come to a place or an event:
Meaning charm or enchant (someone), often in a deceptive way:
Meaning enchant and delight (someone):
Meaning fill (someone) with great delight; charm:
Meaning delight greatly:
Meaning entice (someone) to do or believe something inadvisable or foolhardy:
Meaning induce (someone) to do something through reasoning or argument:
Meaning excite the senses or desires of (someone):
Meaning arouse the curiosity or interest of; fascinate:
Meaning attract the strong attention and interest of (someone):
Meaning pleasing or appealing to the senses:
Meaning attractive or interesting:
Meaning attractive:
Meaning offering the promise of an attractive or enjoyable experience:
Meaning having glamour:
Meaning capable of attracting and holding interest; charming:
Meaning tempting and attractive; enticing:
Meaning delightfully charming or attractive:
Meaning very pleasant or attractive:
Meaning extremely interesting:
Meaning arousing one's curiosity or interest; fascinating:
Meaning tormenting or teasing with the sight or promise of something unobtainable:
Meaning exhibiting or relating to magnetism:
Meaning too attractive and tempting to be resisted:
alluring antonyms
Meaning drive or force (an attack or attacker) back or away:
Translation of alluring
- French: séduisant
- Italian: seducente, affascinante, allettante
- Spanish: seductor, seductora
- German: verlockend, verführerisch
- Portuguese: sedutor
Anagrams of alluring
Words that rhyme with alluring
Ring, ring, Baring, Dearing, Spearing, Waring, Wearing, Zearing, abearing, afearing, affearing, afterhearing, anearing, appearing, ashlaring, backbearing, baring, bearing, beggaring, besmearing, bevaring, bewaring, blaring, blearing, burglaring, calendaring, caring, cellaring, charing, cheddaring, cheeseparing, childbearing, chivaring, clearing, coappearing, collaring, comparing, compearing, daring, dearing, declaring, dellaring, desugaring, disappearing, dogearing, drearing, earing, emparing, endearing, ensearing
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