Meaning

Alluring; attractive..

Definitions by Sense

1. Alluring; attractive.
2. (obsolete) Infectious; contagious.
3. The act by which something is taken.
4. (uncountable) A seizure of someone's goods or possessions.
5. (uncountable) A state of mental distress, resulting in excited or erratic behavior (in the expression in a taking).
6. (in the plural, Commonwealth, UK, Ireland) Cash or money received (by a shop or other business, for example).
7. present participle and gerund of take

Example Sentences

[…] a Proteus-Devil appeared unto him, changing into Shapes, but fixing himself at last into the form of a Fair Woman. Strange, that Satan (so subtil in making his Temptations most taking) should preferre this form […]

His speech from the hustings was very original, and therefore very taking.

“Yes, Paris must be a taking place,” said Humphrey. “Grand shop-winders, trumpets, and drums; and here be we out of doors in all winds and weathers—”

The gentleman had left for London after lunch. Yes, alone; but he had lunched in the hotel with a lady. A young lady. A very taking young lady. She called him uncle. But walked away in another direction as his cab started. The porter's eye was beginning to twinkle; […]

All the stor’d vengeances of heaven fall On her ingrateful top! Strike her young bones, You taking airs, with lameness!

Come not near me, For I am yet too taking for your company.

At the taking of the stockade he had distinguished himself greatly by the methodical ferocity of his fighting.

Second, they argue that giving the original owner a take-back option might lead to an infinite sequence of takings and retakings if the exercise price for the take-back option (i.e., the damages assessed at each round) is set too low.

Word Forms

• more taking
• most taking
• takings

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Use taking when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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