tempting

English

Pronunciation

(US) IPA^(key): /ˈtɛmp.tɪŋ/
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Adjective

tempting (comparative more tempting, superlative most tempting)

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; […].
Seductive, alluring, inviting.

Translations

attractive, appealing, enticing

Catalan: temptador m, temptadora f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 有吸引力 (zh)的，吸引 (zh)人的
Dutch: verleidelijk (nl)
Finnish: houkutteleva, viehättävä (fi)
French: tentant (fr)

German: verführerisch (de), verlockend (de), attraktiv (de)
Norwegian:
Bokmål: fristende
Portuguese: tentador (pt) m
Romanian: tentant (ro)

seductive, alluring, inviting

Catalan: temptador m, temptadora f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 誘人 (zh)的，誘惑 (zh)的
Finnish: houkutteleva, viettelevä (fi)
German: verführerisch (de), verlockend (de), einladend (de), reizend (de)

Norwegian:
Bokmål: fristende
Portuguese: tentador (pt) m
Romanian: tentant (ro)

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Dutch: ^{(please verify)} verlokkelijk (nl)

Verb

tempting

present participle of tempt

Noun

tempting (plural temptings)

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?

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