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alluring Definition

al·lur·ing (ə lo̵oriŋ, a-)

adjective

tempting strongly; highly attractive; charming

alluring Related Forms
al·lur·ingly adverb
alluring Usage Examples

Adjective complement with noun phrase

  • make: Oak beams, exposed stone walls and a feature bed head make this cottage very alluring.
  • become: If metrosexual has become something alluring since i last blinked i shall happily embrace it as an umberella term.

Modifies a noun

  • prospect: To attach himself to a good family and obtain a dowry was an alluring prospect.
  • region: Nevertheless, it is still a highly alluring region, one of the most delightful that we have discovered in recent years.
  • city: City of the Moors Of all of southern Spain, it is the alluring city of Granada where the Moors left their greatest mark.
  • woman: Think of the power an alluring woman on a flat screen can have on a man.
  • style: Everything about him contributed to his having the most alluring prose style of his day.
  • image: Instead he used his idiosyncratic persona to charm his sitters and conveyed a glamorous, alluring public image.

Modifying Another Word

  • strangely: There's something strangely alluring about posting an old piece of writing about an old piece of writing.
  • sexually: The Globe company needs to experiment with casting actors who are androgynous enough to be sexually alluring to heterosexual men.
  • so: But as she's so alluring, that's okay.
  • too: Our group was a little tardy to the gig, the pull of Manchester's outstanding Deansgate Locks proved too alluring.
  • very: Media hype has invested IT with a very alluring mystique.
  • incredibly: They were incredibly alluring, the types of people who inspire devotion and obsession for reasons largely beyond control or reason.

Used with adjective complement

  • prove: Our group was a little tardy to the gig, the pull of Manchester's outstanding Deansgate Locks proved too alluring.
  • become: This is the point where a stealth candidate becomes alluring.
  • look: The views were stunning ( Ben Nevis clearly in view ), and the rest of the ridge looked very alluring.
  • seem: The scout talked Steven's into a movie contract, which must have seemed more alluring than his chosen career of dentist.
  • find: Mojacar has a real charm which I find alluring.
  • sound: Here is a comprehensive selection of places to stay, which sound very alluring indeed, not all at high prices.
alluring Quotes

A little disdain is not amiss; a little scorn is alluring.

—Congreve,William

O, nothing is more alluring than a levee from a couch in some confusion.

—Congreve,William

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