Definition of beckoning
: attractive or inviting : appealing
- … in the beckoning, golden distances of the great new westward continent …
- —Robert Penn Warren
- The most immediately beckoning aspect of Kobke's work is probably his portraiture.
- —Sanford Schwartz
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beckoningly
adverb-
- Over the main entrance, a constellation of electric lights flicked beckoningly off and on.
- —Peter Quennell
