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seductive [si-duhk-tiv]

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Main Entry:	seductive [si-duhk-tiv] Show IPA/sɪˈdʌktɪv/ Show Spelled
Part of Speech:	adjective
Definition:	alluring, sexy
Synonyms:	attracting, attractive, beguiling, bewitching, captivating, charming, come-hither, desirable, drawing, enchanting, enticing, fascinating, flirtatious, inviting, irresistible, magnetic, provocative, ravishing, siren, specious, tempting
Antonyms:	distasteful, ugly, unpleasing

Main Entry:	attractive
Part of Speech:	adjective
Definition:	appealing, drawing attention
Synonyms:	adorable, agreeable, alluring, beautiful, beckoning, bewitching, captivating, charming, comely, enchanting, engaging, enthralling, enticing, fair, fascinating, fetching, glamorous, good-looking, gorgeous, handsome, hunky, interesting, inviting, looker, lovely, luring, magnetic, mesmeric, pleasant, pleasing, prepossessing, pretty, provocative, seductive, stunning, taking, tantalizing, teasing, tempting, winning, winsome
Antonyms:	repellent, repulsive, ugly, unappealing, unattractive

Main Entry:	charming
Part of Speech:	adjective
Definition:	captivating
Synonyms:	absorbing, alluring, amiable, appealing, attractive, bewitching, charismatic, choice, cute, dainty, delectable, delicate, delightful, desirable, electrifying, elegant, enamoring, engaging, engrossing, enthralling, entrancing, eye-catching, fascinating, fetching, glamorous, graceful, infatuating, inviting, irresistible, likable, lovable, lovely, magnetizing, nice, pleasant, pleasing, provocative, rapturous, ravishing, seducing, seductive, sweet, tantalizing, tempting, titillating, winning, winsome
Antonyms:	frightening, irritating, offensive, repellent, repulsing, repulsive, terrifying

Example Sentences

Promises of windfall riches are seductive to states.

Film is a seductive medium, however, and several smart friends have been taken in.

It is a seductive vision and one that promises to benefit plenty of people.

Promises of windfall riches are seductive to states.

Film is a seductive medium, however, and several smart friends have been taken in.

It is a seductive vision and one that promises to benefit plenty of people.

The mucus inside the male elephant's trunk helps deliver a concentrated whiff of the seductive scent.

Valentino was a silent film star known for his seductive stare.

The notion of information existing in its own world, separate from the physical one, has always been seductive.

The doubt on which opponents of reform play is simple and seductive.

There is nothing more seductive than the taste and texture of ripe figs.

The ability to tweak well-known characters for modern times makes fairy tales particularly seductive.

The idea that shopping is the new politics is certainly seductive.

In the geological world, too, the beauty of youth works its seductive power.

There is a universal, undeniably seductive effect of something declared to be forbidden or secret.

In normal markets, auction-rate debt looked highly seductive.

It is the rare actress who can manage to be so seductive or sultry as this scene.

Still, the wattle and arm-flab reduction in the photos is seductive.

Meanwhile, their country remains as beautiful and seductive as ever, and the two-hour lunch is alive and well.

Surreality, as it turns out, is more seductive than incomplete reality.

Investors reverted to familiar faces and seductive speeches.

Spells is a rough but seductive mash of noise, pop and adrenaline.

Most damaging of all for the marriage between gold bugs and gold miners has been the arrival of a seductive new financial tool.

No coffee can resist the seductive power of this ridiculously expensive device.

Dotcoms may no longer be the seductive alternative to the decade-long slog to partnership that they were a year ago.

Incoming hits are announced in a seductive voice, and warnings are automatically disabled when you're idling.

It teaches that living with decline is not always a question of denial: decline can be a seductive choice.

For now, such details have yet to spoil the seductive simplicity of her message.

The evolutionary logic behind the argument that resistant organisms are inferior is seductive.

And in so doing, they create a seductive sense of community.

It is a seductive idea, and one that stock exchanges are working towards.

Taniguchi is adept at designing complex spaces, often with real seductive power.

Armor shields, seductive smells, artful camouflage-such are the physical and behavioral tools.

For anyone who loves to cook, it's a seductive prospect: preparing your meals.

There's something eerily seductive about this lock-picking business.

We often slip in and out of racism's seductive logic:.

Group exhibition of artists selected through an open-call that considers the seductive relationship artists have with materials.

The smoky, seductive pall of frying sausage, wafting across the fairground and mingling with the sweet country perfume.

It's a seductive package, crammed with all the on-screen and off-screen talent that big-studio money can.

One is the problem of fighting the seductive and persuasive visuals of computer animation at public hearings.

Vampires were the cultural embodiment of the end of the millennium: seductive immortals with.

Nut the food doesn't exert as seductive a claim to the.

The wonderfully diverse raw bar is enticing, and the menu offers so many seductive choices that decisions can be difficult.

The atmosphere is seductive and the quality of the seafood is.

That, for me, sums up the seductive intellectual core of computers and computer programming: here is a magic black box.

As the whipping increased in intensity, his seductive looks into my eyes changed into the look of.

By using their own seductive powers as a means to betray their former abusers, the girls exercise their plan at breakneck speed.

These arguments are seductive at a fearful time, yet they must be resisted.

She has always battled a seductive dependency on speed.

The seductive idea of weather and climate control has been a constant trope in the human imagination.

As the whipping increased in intensity, his seductive looks into my eyes changed into the look of headspace.

In a world of seductive illusions, they became revolutionaries by championing the prodigious chaos of the actual world.

Main Entry:	disarming
Part of Speech:	adjective
Definition:	charming
Synonyms:	bewitching, convincing, deferential, ingratiating, ingratiatory, insinuating, insinuative, inveigling, irresistible, likable, persuasive, saccharine, seductive, silken, silky, winning
Antonyms:	despicable, disgusting

Main Entry:	enchanting
Part of Speech:	adjective
Definition:	fascinating, delightful
Synonyms:	alluring, appealing, attractive, beguiling, bewitching, captivating, charming, delectable, endearing, enthralling, entrancing, exciting, glamorous, intriguing, lovely, pleasant, pleasing, ravishing, seductive, siren, sirenic, winsome
Antonyms:	bothering, disenchanting, disgust, repellent, repulsive

Main Entry:	erotic
Part of Speech:	adjective
Definition:	sexy
Synonyms:	amative, amatory, amorous, aphrodisiac, bawdy, blue, carnal, concupiscent, earthy, erogenous, fervid, filthy, fleshly, hot, impassioned, kinky, lascivious, lecherous, lewd, obscene, off-color, prurient, purple, raunchy, raw, romantic, rousing, salacious, seductive, sensual, sexual, spicy, steamy, stimulating, suggestive, titillating, venereal, voluptuous
Notes:	erotic means giving sexual pleasure or sexually arousing, while exotic means being or from or characteristic of another place or part of the world or strikingly strange or unusual
Antonyms:	bland, cold, dull, frigid, unerotic

* = informal/non-formal usage

Main Entry:	fascinating
Part of Speech:	adjective
Definition:	interesting, spellbinding
Synonyms:	alluring, appealing, attractive, bewitching, captivating, charming, compelling, delectable, delightful, enchanting, engaging, engrossing, enticing, glamorous, gripping, intriguing, irresistible, ravishing, riveting, seducing, seductive, siren
Antonyms:	boring, repulsive, uninteresting

Main Entry:	glamorous
Part of Speech:	adjective
Definition:	sophisticated in style
Synonyms:	alluring, attractive, bewitching, captivating, charismatic, charming, classy, dazzling, drop-dead gorgeous, elegant, enchanting, entrancing, exciting, fascinating, flashy, foxy, glittering, glossy, looking like a million, lovely, magnetic, nifty, prestigious, righteous, seductive*, siren, smart
Antonyms:	dull, lackluster, ugly, unglamorous, unsophisticated

* = informal/non-formal usage

Main Entry:	inviting
Part of Speech:	adjective
Definition:	alluring, captivating
Synonyms:	agreeable, appealing, attractive, beguiling, bewitching, charming, cordial, delightful, encouraging, engaging, enticing, fascinating, intriguing, magnetic, mouthwatering, open, persuasive, pleasing, provocative, seductive, tempting, warm, welcoming, winning, winsome
Antonyms:	disenchanting, disgusting, uninviting

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