enticing

adjective

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: arousing strong attraction or interest : alluring

an enticing aroma

an enticing menu

an enticing opportunity/possibility

Some of the most enticing food on the menu is in the "little bite" section, more than a dozen appetizers priced from $5 to $11 per plate.

—Aleta Watson

… the books that would give him a taste of the knowledge which was more enticing to his wide-awake young mind than clothes and food to his poor little body.

—Louisa May Alcott

enticingly adverb

an enticingly aromatic dish

… this program enticingly acquaints students with the features and potential of microcomputers.

—Booklist

He looked on her, his bright, healthy, enticingly beautiful daughter, and wondered what was going to become of her.

—Theodore Dreiser

enticingness noun

We shall seek to be frugal with our sweet possessions, though their enticingness quite leads us astray …

—Emily Dickinson

Examples of enticing in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

But when fall and winter come around, something about a mountain town seems extra enticing. —Tara Massouleh McCay, Southern Living, 2 Nov. 2024

Sunday's slate includes several enticing matchups, headlined by the Broncos at Ravens, Cowboys at Falcons, Dolphins at Bills, Lions at Packers and Colts at Vikings. —Tim Van Straten, Newsweek, 2 Nov. 2024

The enticing menu includes starters of seabass tartare with oyster cream, green apple and shiso and the unmissable hand rolled spaghetti with native lobster. —Joanne Shurvell, Forbes, 1 Nov. 2024

The free-agent market, then, presents two enticing options: Willy Adames and Ha-Seong Kim. Adames, tucked away from the baseball mainstream in Tampa Bay and Milwaukee, has been one of baseball’s most productive shortstops over the last half-decade. —Justice Delos Santos, The Mercury News, 31 Oct. 2024

Word History

First Known Use

1553, in the meaning defined above