tempting

adj, noun — 3 senses

tempting

adj

US /ˈtɛmp.tɪŋ/

1

Attractive, appealing, enticing.

It is tempting to speculate about the incentives or compulsions that might explain why anyone would take to the skies in [the] basket [of a balloon]: perhaps out of a desire to escape the gravity of this world or to get a preview of the next; […].2013 June 7, David Simpson, “Fantasy of navigation”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 26, page 36:

2

Seductive, alluring, inviting.

Synonyms: slinky
Derived terms: temptingly, temptingness, untempting

tempting

noun

1

The act of subjecting somebody to temptation.

If God doth suffer his own people and dearest children to be exposed to Satan's temptings and winnowings; Why should any man then doubt of his childship, doubt of his own everlasting condition, and say, that he is none of the child of God because he is tempted?1646, William Bridge, On Temptation (sermon)

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