Alluring

Quick meaning: Alluring is an adjective meaning Having the power to allure.

Meaning

Having the power to allure.

More Meanings

1. The act or habit of enticing or attracting in order to seek a benefit or advantage.
2. present participle and gerund of allure

Example Sentences

Lookout heights and Smoky Mountains have allurings all their own.

Was this poor breast, from Love's allurings free, / Cruel to all, and gentle unto thee ?

Captain Edward Carlisle, soldier as he was, martinet as he was, felt a curious sensation of helplessness seize upon him as he met her steady gaze, her alluring smile ; he could not tell what this prisoner might do.

For, as when the red-cheeked, dancing girls, April and May, trip home to the wintry, misanthropic woods; even the barest, ruggedest, most thunder-cloven old oak will at least send forth some few green sprouts, to welcome such glad-hearted visitants; so Ahab did, in the end, a little respond to the playful allurings of that girlish air.

Word Forms

• allurings

Synonyms for alluring

Depending on context, synonyms include beguiling, enticing, seductive, tempting.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include tempting, enticing, seductive, beguiling, attractive, appealing.

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