Definition of intriguing
:engaging the interest to a marked degree :fascinating
- an intriguing story
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- Some had once contained medicines, sarsaparilla, or elixirs; others had intriguing names embossed into their glass panels: Balm of One Thousand Flowers, Indian Cholagogue, Dr. Kilmer's Kidney Cure, and Ocean Weed Heart Remedy. —Kim Wong Keltner, The Dim Sum of All Things, 2004
- 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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On intriguing possibility: an alliance between Merkel’s CDU and the Greens.
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And the slot receiver competition — Victor Cruz vs. Kendall Wright — is arguably the most intriguing roster battle of August.
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Lie. is a modern supper club serving reinvented American classics, paired with live music and intriguing performances.
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Both are obviously assured of roster spots, but who emerges as the RT out of those two remains one of the more intriguing position battles to watch.
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Balleisen alludes to some intriguing possibilities that deserve further exploration.
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More intriguing, just 54 percent of the MCI patients had amyloid build-up, putting them at higher risk for later Alzheimer’s.
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But, with the release of a new poster this week, fans on Reddit have come up with some intriguing theories about what the monster will be.
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What is more, the debate over debt, as framed, misses the most intriguing thing about their balance-sheets.
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Origin and Etymology of intriguing
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absorbing, arresting, consuming, engaging, engrossing, enthralling, fascinating, gripping, immersing, interesting, involving, rivetingAntonyms
boring, drab, dry, dull, heavy, monotonous, tedious, uninterestingRelated Words
breathtaking, electric, electrifying, exciting, exhilarating, galvanizing, inspiring, rousing, stimulating, stirring, thrilling; provocative, tantalizing; emphatic, showy, splashy, striking; alluring, attractive, bewitching, captivating, charming, enchanting, spellbinding; hypnotizing, mesmerizing; curious, odd, unusual, weird; amazing, astonishing, astounding, eventful, eye-opening, fabulous, marvelous (or marvellous), surprising, wonderful, wondrous; amusing, entertainingNear Antonyms
operose, tiresome, tiring, wearisome, wearying; sterile, unexciting; dreary, humdrum, pedantic, pedestrian; demoralizing, discouraging, disheartening, dispiritingINTRIGUING Defined for English Language Learners
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: extremely interesting
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