enticing

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enticing (comparative more enticing, superlative most enticing)

1. That entices; alluring; attractive; charming

   Synonyms: enticing, (formal, obsolete) illecebrous; see also Thesaurus:attractive

   Antonyms: repulsive, unalluring, unattractive, unenticing

enticing

1. present participle and gerund of entice

• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “enticing”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• “enticing”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

enticing (plural enticings)

1. enticement; temptation
   • 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, “The Chase—First Day”, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC, page 604:

     On each soft side [of the White Whale]—coincident with the parted swell, that but once leaving him, then flowed so wide away—on each bright side, the whale shed off enticings.