Definify.com

Webster 1913 Edition

Tempting

Tempt′ing

,
Adj.
Adapted to entice or allure; attractive; alluring; seductive; enticing;
as,
tempting
pleasures
.
–
Tempt′ing-ly
,
adv.
–
Tempt′ing-ness
,
Noun.

Webster 1828 Edition

Tempting

TEMPT'ING

,
ppr.
Enticing to evil; trying.
1.
a. Adapted to entice or allure; attractive; as tempting pleasures.

Definition 2024

tempting

tempting

English

Adjective

tempting ‎(comparative more tempting, superlative most tempting)

  1. Attractive, appealing, enticing.
    • 2013 June 7, David Simpson, “Fantasy of navigation”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 26, page 36:
      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; […].
  2. Seductive, alluring, inviting.

Translations

Verb

tempting

  1. present participle of tempt

Noun

tempting ‎(plural temptings)

  1. The act of subjecting somebody to temptation.
    • William Bridge
      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?

Pronunciation

Similar Results