intriguing

adjective

in·trigu·ing in-ˈtrē-giŋ

Synonyms of intriguing next

: engaging the interest to a marked degree : fascinating

an intriguing story

Examples of intriguing in a Sentence

The Huns are intriguing not only because of their notoriously hawkish history, but also because of their place as middlemen between Mongol and Turkic ethnicity. —

Victor L. Mote, Siberia, 1998

The next two phases of the Cambrian … mark the strangest, most important, and most intriguing of all episodes in the fossil record of animals—the short interval known as the Cambrian explosion … —

Stephen Jay Gould, Natural History, July/August 1998

The folklorist Jan Brunvand has documented hundreds of "urban legends," intriguing stories that everyone swears happened to a friend of a friend … and that circulate for years in nearly identical form in city after city, but that can never be documented as real events. —

Steven Pinker, The Language Instinct, 1994

The offer is very intriguing. an intriguing concept that should engender much debate among climatologists

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Angela Brassinga, Sunset Magazine, 16 Nov. 2023 See More

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