something that is tempting is attractive, and makes people want to have it, do it, etc:
It was a tempting offer. * That cake looks very tempting. * It's tempting to speculate about what might have happened. * A weekend in Rome? Mm, sounds tempting!
temptingly adverb
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for tempting is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is tempting a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, tempting is tagged as adjective.
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