"enticing" meaning in English

See enticing in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Adjective

Audio: en-us-enticing.ogg (note: us), en-au-enticing.ogg [Australia] Forms: more enticing [comparative], most enticing [superlative]
Head templates: {{en-adj}} enticing (comparative more enticing, superlative most enticing)
  1. That entices; alluring; attractive; charming Synonyms: enticing, illecebrous [formal, obsolete], attractive Translations (alluring): привлекателен (privlekatelen) (Bulgarian), съблазнителен (sǎblaznitelen) (Bulgarian), atractiu (Catalan), temptador (Catalan), estimulant (Catalan), verlokkelijk (Dutch), viettelevä (Finnish), houkutteleva (Finnish), aguicheur (French), tentador (Galician), aliciante (Portuguese), tentador [masculine] (Portuguese), atrativo [masculine] (Portuguese), atiçador (Portuguese), seducător (Romanian), tentant (Romanian), încântător (Romanian), atrăgător (Romanian), зама́нчивый (zamánčivyj) (Russian), соблазни́тельный (soblaznítelʹnyj) (Russian), togarrach (Scottish Gaelic), tentador [masculine] (Spanish), incitante (Spanish), aliciante (Spanish), lockande (Swedish), frestande (Swedish), спокусливий (spokuslyvyj) (Ukrainian)
    Sense id: en-enticing-en-adj-A-coTA9W

Noun

Audio: en-us-enticing.ogg (note: us), en-au-enticing.ogg [Australia] Forms: enticings [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} enticing (plural enticings)
  1. enticement; temptation
    Sense id: en-enticing-en-noun-X6U~8~ov

Verb

Audio: en-us-enticing.ogg (note: us), en-au-enticing.ogg [Australia]
Head templates: {{head|en|verb form}} enticing
  1. present participle and gerund of entice Tags: form-of, gerund, participle, present Form of: entice
    Sense id: en-enticing-en-verb-0R5iyMOF Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with language name categories using raw markup Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 32 3 65 Disambiguation of English entries with language name categories using raw markup: 24 3 72

Inflected forms

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      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/3/30/En-au-enticing.ogg/En-au-enticing.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/30/En-au-enticing.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "Australia"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (AU)"
    }
  ],
  "word": "enticing"
}

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If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.