seductive
adjUK, US /sɪˈdʌktɪv/
Etymology From Latin sēduct-, past-participle stem of sēdūcere, + -ive.
1
Attractive, alluring, tempting.
- Evil is said to be seductive, which is one reason why people do what they know they shouldn't.
- The most rapid and most seductive transition in all human nature is that which attends the palliation of a ravenous appetite. There is something humiliating about it.[…]Can those harmless but refined fellow-diners be the selfish cads whose gluttony and personal appearance so raised your contemptuous wrath on your arrival?1921, Ben Travers, chapter 5, in A Cuckoo in the Nest, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, published 1925, →OCLC:
- Derived terms
- nonseductive, seductively, seductiveness, seductivity, unseductive
- Related terms
- seductress, seducement, seduce, seduction