enticing

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adjective

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: arousing strong attraction or interest : alluring

an enticing aroma

an enticing menu

an enticing opportunity/possibility

Some of the most enticing food on the menu is in the "little bite" section, more than a dozen appetizers priced from $5 to $11 per plate.

—Aleta Watson

… the books that would give him a taste of the knowledge which was more enticing to his wide-awake young mind than clothes and food to his poor little body.

—Louisa May Alcott

enticingly adverb

an enticingly aromatic dish

… this program enticingly acquaints students with the features and potential of microcomputers.

—Booklist

He looked on her, his bright, healthy, enticingly beautiful daughter, and wondered what was going to become of her.

—Theodore Dreiser

enticingness noun

We shall seek to be frugal with our sweet possessions, though their enticingness quite leads us astray …

—Emily Dickinson

enticing

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present participle of entice

Examples of enticing in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Adjective

This last concert of the Yankee Stadium run promised to be a career-spanning revue—an enticing pitch, as the later albums have felt more like exercises in brand management. — Hua Hsu, New Yorker, 21 Sep. 2026

Still, Mehta and cinematographer Pip White craft an enticing atmosphere amid the gunfire, as day turns to night, and dust consumes the air. — Siddhant Adlakha, IndieWire, 21 Sep. 2026

The Bottom Line​ AI is certainly an ever-present and enticing technology bandage, but the real competitive advantage does not lie in gobbling up every possible use case. — Robbie Morrison, Forbes.com, 14 Sep. 2026

How To Keep Spiders Off Your Porch A clean porch isn’t as enticing as one that’s never used. — Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 14 Sep. 2026

Word History

First Known Use

Adjective

1553, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for enticing

• sufficing
• deicing
• dicing
• icing
• pricing
• slicing
• splicing
• sacrificing
• satisficing