enticing

comparative more enticing · superlative most enticing

1. That entices; alluring; attractive; charming

   The opportunity to extinguish MAGAdom is so enticing that it has purged one of the most self-sabotaging inclinations in the American liberal’s coalition: the fractious adjudication of identity that can too often become a priority over winning elections.

   2024 July 31, Luke Winkie, “My Rousing Night at “White Dudes for Harris””, in Slate

   Synonyms: enticive, alluring, appealing, appetizing, attracting, attractive, catchy, bewitching · Antonyms: repulsive, unalluring, unattractive, unenticing

1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of entice

plural enticings

1. enticement; temptation

   On each soft side [of the White Whale]—coincident with the parted swell, that but once leaving him, then flowed so wide away—on each bright side, the whale shed off enticings.

   1851 November 14, Herman Melville, “The Chase—First Day”, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC, page 604