Intriguing

/ɪnˈtɹiːɡɪŋ/ · adjective

Meaning

Causing a desire to know more; mysterious..

Definitions by Sense

1. Causing a desire to know more; mysterious.
2. Involving oneself in secret plots or schemes.
3. (archaic) Having clandestine or illicit intercourse.
4. present participle and gerund of intrigue
5. (dated) An intrigue.

Example Sentences

As a result, while the train was being shunted at Bombay, the buffers became locked, producing a situation most intriguing for the onlookers, but exasperating for the exalted passengers and the unhappy railway authorities.

A book that does not sell us the powerful, intriguing women of Rome simply as poisoners, schemers, and femmes fatales […]

[…] few respectable women will now sit at a window, looking into the public street, or gaze at passengers in any large town or city; and no one does so at present, unless an innocent inexperienced, husband-hunting, flirtish, or intriguing person.

In all these negotiations, and caballings, and intriguings, the person most concerned, Frances Coke, the beauty and the heiress, was only the ball in the game.

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• more intriguing
• most intriguing
• intriguings

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