tempting

English

Pronunciation

(US) IPA^(key): /ˈtɛmp.tɪŋ/
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Adjective

tempting (comparative more tempting, superlative most tempting)

Attractive, appealing, enticing.
- 2013 June 7, David Simpson, “Fantasy of navigation”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 26, page 36:
  It is tempting to speculate about the incentives or compulsions that might explain why anyone would take to the skies in [the] basket [of a balloon]: perhaps out of a desire to escape the gravity of this world or to get a preview of the next; […].
Seductive, alluring, inviting.

Translations

attractive, appealing, enticing

Bulgarian: примамлив (bg) (primamliv), превлекателен (prevlekatelen)
Catalan: temptador
Chinese:
Mandarin: 有吸引力 (zh)的，吸引 (zh)人的
Danish: fristende
Dutch: verleidelijk (nl)
Finnish: houkutteleva (fi), viehättävä (fi)
French: tentant (fr)
Galician: tentador
German: verführerisch (de), verlockend (de), attraktiv (de)
Greek: δελεαστικός (el) (deleastikós)
Italian: tentatore (it)
Norwegian:
Bokmål: fristende
Portuguese: tentador (pt)
Romanian: tentant (ro)
Russian: соблазни́тельный (ru) (soblaznítelʹnyj), привлека́тельный (ru) (privlekátelʹnyj)
Spanish: tentador (es)
Ukrainian: спокусливий (spokuslyvyj)

seductive, alluring, inviting

Bulgarian: съблазнителен (bg) (sǎblaznitelen)
Catalan: temptador
Chinese:
Mandarin: 誘人 (zh)的，誘惑 (zh)的
Finnish: houkutteleva (fi), viettelevä (fi)
German: verführerisch (de), verlockend (de), einladend (de), reizend (de)
Norwegian:
Bokmål: fristende
Portuguese: tentador (pt)
Romanian: tentant (ro)
Russian: соблазни́тельный (ru) (soblaznítelʹnyj), маня́щий (ru) (manjáščij), привлека́тельный (ru) (privlekátelʹnyj)
Spanish: tentador (es)

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Dutch: ^{(please verify)} verlokkelijk (nl)

Verb

tempting

present participle of tempt

Noun

tempting (plural temptings)

The act of subjecting somebody to temptation.
- 1646, William Bridge, On Temptation (sermon)
  If God doth suffer his own people and dearest children to be exposed to Satan's temptings and winnowings; Why should any man then doubt of his childship, doubt of his own everlasting condition, and say, that he is none of the child of God because he is tempted?