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tempting

/ˈtɛmp.tɪŋ/

tempting adjective: attractive, appealing, enticing. Also the present participle and gerund of tempt.

Adjective

tempting (comparative more tempting, superlative most tempting)

  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.

Noun

tempting (plural temptings)

  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)

Also used as

tempting is also the present participle and gerund of tempt.

tempting meaning in Hindi, Bengali, Telugu and Odia

tempting in Hindi

attractive, appealing, enticing
लोभन lobhan
seductive, alluring, inviting
लोभन lobhan, आकर्षक ākarṣak

tempting in Bengali

লোভনীয়

tempting in Telugu

ప్రలోభపెట్టేది, ప్రలోభపెడుతోంది, ప్రలోభపెడుతుంది

tempting in Odia

ଲୋଭନୀଯ଼, ପ୍ରଲୋଭିତ କରିବା
More languagesFewer languages
tempting in Nepali
प्रलोभित गर्ने
tempting in Indonesian
menarik, memikat, menggiurkan, menggairahkan

Examples of tempting in a sentence

  • The entire dessert menu was tempting, but I plumped for the cheesecake.
  • The idea is too tempting, it's obsessive.
  • The table was covered with all sorts of tempting confections.

All 40 example sentences with tempting

Synonyms of tempting

Forms of tempting

Adjective
comparativemore tempting
superlativemost tempting
Noun
pluraltemptings

Words formed from tempting

Phrases with tempting

Questions about tempting

What does tempting mean?
Tempting means attractive, appealing, enticing.
What is tempting in Hindi?
Tempting in Hindi is लोभन (lobhan), आकर्षक (ākarṣak). See Tempting meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is tempting?
Tempting can be an adjective or a noun.
How do you pronounce tempting?
Tempting is pronounced /ˈtɛmp.tɪŋ/ (US).

Words near tempting in the dictionary

  1. tempters
  2. temptest
  3. tempteth
  4. temptful
  5. temptin'
  6. tempting
  7. tempting fate
  8. temptingly
  9. temptingness
  10. temptings
  11. temptless

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Adapted from Wiktionary: tempting (page history and authors); tempting (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); tempting (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); tempting (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); tempting (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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