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Definition: Alluring |
AlluringAdjective1. Highly attractive and able to arouse hope or desire; "an alluring prospect"; "her alluring smile"; "the voice was low and beguiling"; "difficult to say no to an enticing advertisement"; "a tempting invitation". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "alluring" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references) |
Synonyms: AlluringSynonyms: beguiling (adj), enticing (adj), tempting (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Pain | Attractive; inviting, prepossessing, engaging; winning, winsome; taking, fascinating, captivating, killing; seducing, seductive; heart-robbing, alluring, enticing; appetizing; (exciting); cheering; bewitching; enchanting, entrancing, |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Alluring |
| English words defined with "alluring": Allective ♦ beguiling ♦ enticing ♦ glamor, glamour ♦ Illecebrous, illusive, illusory, invitation ♦ Quail call ♦ tempting. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "alluring": Bertramo ♦ severalty. (references) |
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| Author | Quotation |
John Mortimer | The freedom to make a fortune on the stock exchange has been made to sound more alluring than freedom of speech. |
Lucretius | Never trust her at any time, when the calm sea shows her false alluring smile. |
Michel Eyquem De Montaigne | In the education of children there is nothing like alluring the interest and affection, otherwise you only make so many asses laden with books. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| Title | Author | Quote |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | He saw her serious alluring eyes watching him from among the audience and their image at once swept away his scruples, leaving his will compact. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Business | With forecasts for electricity consumption to rise, it is understandable that the opportunity to capture a share of this coveted market is one too alluring to merely passively observe. (references) | |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | SEVERALTY, n. Separateness, as, lands in severalty, i.e., lands held individually, not in joint ownership. Certain tribes of Indians are believed now to be sufficiently civilized to have in severalty the lands that they have hitherto held as tribal organizations, and could not sell to the Whites for waxen beads and potato whiskey. Lo! the poor Indian whose unsuited mind Saw death before, hell and the grave behind; Whom thrifty settler ne'er besought to stay -- His small belongings their appointed prey; Whom Dispossession, with alluring wile, Persuaded elsewhere every little while! His fire unquenched and his undying worm By "land in severalty" (charming term!) Are cooled and killed, respectively, at last, And he to his new holding anchored fast! |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
Grover Cleveland | 1885-1889; 1893-1897 | At the same time, in our efforts to adjust differences of opinion we should be free from intolerance or passion, and our judgments should be unmoved by alluring phrases and unvexed by selfish interests. |
Harry S. Truman | 1945-1953 | We should not be lulled by the immediate alluring prospects into forgetting the fundamental complexity of modern affairs, the catastrophe that can come in this complexity, or the values that can be wrested from it. |
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| "Alluring" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 54.55% of the time. "Alluring" is used about 44 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 54.55% | 24 | 71,196 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 45.45% | 20 | 78,262 |
| Total | 100.00% | 44 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "alluring": alluring prospect. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
alluring | 34 |
alluring fitness | 14 |
alluring intimates | 11 |
alluring model | 7 |
alluring woman | 4 |
alluring waterfall | 3 |
alluring skirt | 3 |
alluring feat | 2 |
alluring girl | 2 |
alluring kim | 2 |
alluring russian women.com | 2 |
alluring lingerie | 2 |
alluring image | 2 |
adventure alluring | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "alluring"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | tërheqës (absorbing, absorptive, adorable, appealing, attractable, attractive, catchy, charismatic, comely, cunning, cute, drawer, dreamy, engaging, engrossing, enticing, fetching, interesting, inviting, jolly, likable, likeable, nice, personable, pleasing, pretty, showy, sightly, winsome), ngashënjyes (attractive, seducer, seductive), joshës (attractive, captivating, charming, engaging, enticing, fetching, glamorous, glamourous, luscious, seducer, seductive, sexy, tempter, tempting, winning, winsome). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | فاتن (attractive, breathtaking, captivating, catching, charming, cute, darling, enchanting, engaging, entrancing, exquisite, fascinating, glamorous, glamourous, likely, lovely, magic, magical, mesmeric, personable, philanderer, picturesque, pretty, ravishing, seducer, spellbinding, stunning, superb, sweet, tempter, thrilling, winning, winsome, zestful), مغر (enticing, inviting, seducer, seducing, seductive, tempting), جذاب (allurement, appealing, attractive, becoming, captivating, catching, catchy, charming, cute, desirable, ducky, engaging, enticing, fascinating, fetching, fine, inviting, magnetic, magnetizing, nice, picturesquely, pleasant, prepossessing, pretty, seductive, sweet, taking, tasty). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | съблазнителен (appetizing, enticing, inviting, seductive, tempting, yummy), очарователен (adorable, bewitching, captivating, charming, darling, delightful, entrancing, fascinating, fetching, glamorous, glamourous, lovely, orphic, raving, ravishing, stunning, sweet, winning, winsome), привлекателен (appealing, attractive, catching, catchy, congenial, cute, debonair, desirable, engaging, enticing, fetching, ingratiating, interesting, inviting, lickerish, likable, likeable, likely, lovable, pleasing, prepossessing, pretty, seductive, sightly, taking, tempting, winsome, yummy), примамлив (attractive, siren, tempting), пленителен (captivating, charming, enchanting, fascinating, killing, raving, ravishing, taking). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 引诱 (Baited, Baiting, inducement). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | svùdný (beguiling, fetching, inviting, seductive, suggestive, tempting), přitažlivý (attractive, catchy, desirable, prepossessing, toothsome), okouzlující (adorable, arresting, beguiling, bewitching, charming, enchanting, engaging, enthralling, fascinating, fetching, glamorous, glamourous, graceful, prepossessing, ravishing). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | lekker (attractive, enticing, nice, tasty, tempting). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Esperanto | franda (attractive, enticing, tempting). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | houkuttelu (tempting). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | attirant, séduisant. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | verlockend (alluringly, appetizing, attractive, enticing, inviting, invitingly, luring, seductive, seductively, tantalizing, tantalizingly, tempting, temptingly, voluptuous). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | θελκτικόσ (becoming, charming, delightful, fetching), δελεαστικόσ (enticing, seductive, siren, tempting). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | מצו"" לב (captivating, charming, enthralling, enticing, fascinating). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | csábító (debaucher, enticing, inviting, luring, persuasive, persuasory, seducer, seductive, tempter, tempting), vonzó (appealing, attractive, desirable, engaging, enticing, fetching, magnetic, seductive). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | allettante (attractive, enticing, luring, tantalizing, tempting). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 惑的 (fascinating). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | "わくてき (fascinating). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | breigagh (coaxing, enticing, persuasive, wheedling). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | alluringay sedutor (betrayer, bewitching, entire, leading candidate, love letter, love making, magnetic disc, seductive, siren, winning, winsome, witching), que atrai (absorbing, catching, seductive), encantador (attractive, bewitching, catchy, charmer, charming, delightful, enchanting, fairy, fascinatingly, fine, glamour, glance, lovable, lovely, magic, magical, pleasant, pretty, ravishing, scrumptious, seductive, sightly, stunner, sweet, taking, winsome, witching). (various references) atrãgãtor (attractive, attractively, beautiful, catchy, fair, fascinating, likable, lovely, luscious, magnetic, pleasing, prepossessing, seemly, sweet, taking, winning, winsome), ademenitor (attractive, attractively, corrupter, inviting, invitingly, perverter, seducer, seductive, tempter), chemãtor (appealing, attractive, calling), încântãtor (charming, delightful, entrancing, glamorous, glamourous, rapturous, ravishing). (various references) соблазнительный (desirable, enticing, fetching, pinup, seductive, suggestive, tempting), привлекательный (appealing, attractive, beguiling, catching, cuddly, cunning, dinky, engaging, enticing, fetching, likable, likeable, lovable, lovely, nice-looking, pretty, quaint, snazzy, well-favoured, well-looking, winsome). (various references) t ladh (caressing, enticing, hushing). (various references) privlačan (arresting, attractive, catchy, charming, engaging, fetching, foxy, personable, prepossessing, sexy, toothsome, winning, winsome), primamljiv (attractive, inviting, lickerish, tempting). (various references) atrayente (attractive, catchy, fetching, inviting), atractivo (affinity, allure, allurement, appeal, appealing, attiring, attraction, attractive, attractiveness, catching, charm, chic, colorful, colourful, cool, delightful, engaging, fetching, gilt, glamor, glamorous, glamour, glamourous, good looking, inviting, kissable, likeable, lure, magnetic, neat, nice-looking, prepossessing, seduction, seductive, seductiveness, seemliness, seemly, sexy, taking, temptation, tempting, whatever, winsome), seductor (intriguing, killing, lady killer, ravisher, seducer, seductive, sheik, Sheikh, slinky, tempting). (various references) lockande (appealing, attractive, inveiglement, inviting, tempting). (various references) albenili (appealing), cazip (appealing, attracting, attractive, catching, catchy, conspicuous, endearing, enticing, inviting, piquant, taking, tempting), çekici (appealing, attractive, bewitching, breakdown truck, breakdown van, captivating, catching, catchy, charismatic, charming, comely, desirable, endearing, engaging, engrossing, enthralling, fascinating, fetching, haul, haulier, inviting, juicy, magnetic, nubile, prepossessing, ravishing, sapid, seductive, sexy, spicy, stunning, taking, tempting, toothsome, tow truck, towing truck, tractive, tractor, winsome, witching, wrecker). (various references) спокусливий (aphrodisiac, desirable, enticing, fetching, glittering, pin up, piquant, provocative, provocatory, seductive, tempting, wooing), чарівний (admirable, adorable, amiable, appealing, basilisk, captivating, charming, compelling, darling, delicious, delightful, elfish, elvish, enchanted, enchanting, engaging, entrancing, fairy, fascinating, glamorous, glamourous, goluptious, ingratiating, lovely, magic, magical, orphean, pretty), звабливий (absorbing), привабливий (amiable, appealing, appetible, appetizing, arresting, attractable, attractive, canny, captivating, catching, catchy, clean-cut, compelling, engaging, fetching, gash, likable, likeable, lovable, nice-looking, pleasing, rose colored, rose coloured, specious, well favored, well-favoured, winning, winsome). (various references) quyến rũ (appealing, captivating, catching, fascinating, luringly, seducing, taking, winning, winningly, winsome), lôi cuốn (arrestingly, attractive, catching, catchy, tempting, winning, winningly), l m xiêu lòng, duyên dáng; l m say mê, cám dỗ; có duyên. (various references) hudolus (enchanting). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | blanda, blande, blandis, delicatus. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "alluring": alluringly. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "alluring": unalluring. (additional references) | |
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"Alluring" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Allerdings, Allori, alluren, allurine, aloring, aluring, Olurin. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "alluring" (pronounced uluh"ring) |
| 5 | -l uh" r i ng | luring. |
| 4 | -uh" r i ng | assuring, curing, during, enduring, ensuring, insuring, maturing, mooring, obscuring, procuring, reassuring, securing, touring. |
| 3 | -r i ng | acquiring, adhering, admiring, adoring, airing, appearing, aspiring, baring, barring, bearing, bioengineering, blaring, boring, caring, chairing, charring, cheering, childbearing, clearing, comparing, conspiring, daring, declaring, deploring, despairing, disappearing, domineering, earring, electioneering, endearing, engineering, expiring, exploring, fearing, firing, flaring, flooring, gearing, glaring, Goring, haring, hearing, herring, hiring, ignoring, impairing, imploring, inspiring, interfering, jarring, jeering, marring, ministering, nearing, outpouring, overbearing, overhearing, overpowering, pairing, paring, peering, perspiring, pioneering, poring, pouring, premiering, preparing, profiteering, quiring, racketeering, rearing, reengineering, rehearing, rehiring, repairing, restoring, retiring, roaring, scaring, scarring, scoring, searing, sharing, shearing, shoring, smearing, snaring, sneering, snoring, soaring, sparing, sparring, Spearing, squaring, staring, starring, steering, stevedoring, storing, swearing, tarring, tearing, tiring, uncaring, underscoring, uninspiring, unsparing, veering, volunteering, Waring, warring, wearing, wiring. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-g-i-l-l-n-r-u" | |
-1 letter: ligular, lingual. | |
-2 letters: langur, ligula, lingua, luring, nilgau, ruling, urinal. | |
-3 letters: algin, align, argil, garni, glair, glial, gnarl, grail, grain, grill, gular, liang, ligan, linga, lunar, lungi, rugal, ruing, ulnar, unrig, urial. | |
-4 letters: agin, airn, anil, aril, gain, gall, gaun, gaur, gill, girl, girn, glia, gnar, gran, grin, guan, guar, gull, iglu, lain, lair. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-g-i-l-l-n-r-u" | |
+1 letter: laureling. | |
+2 letters: alluringly, laurelling, neuroglial, singularly, trilingual, unalluring. | |
+3 letters: pluralizing, quarrelling, spurgalling, umbrellaing, unravelling. | |
+4 letters: bullyragging, curveballing, illustrating, neurological, outrivalling, triangularly, trilingually. | |
+5 letters: antiguerrilla, centrifugally, macroglobulin, multiregional, numerological, recalculating, revictualling, unfalteringly. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)41 6C 6C 75 72 69 6E 67 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).- .-.. .-.. ..- .-. .. -. --. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000001 01101100 01101100 01110101 01110010 01101001 01101110 01100111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)A l l u r i n g |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0041 006C 006C 0075 0072 0069 006E 0067 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)3578788784758073 |
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