Intrigue definitions
An intriguing; secret or underhanded plotting.
noun
A secret or underhanded plot or scheme; machination.
noun
A secret love affair.
noun
To carry on a secret love affair.
verb
To plot or scheme secretly or underhandedly.
verb
To bring on, or get, by secret or underhanded plotting.
verb
To excite the interest or curiosity of; fascinate.
The puzzle intrigued her.
verb
To trick or perplex.
verb
To entangle.
verb
A clandestine love affair.
noun
To arouse the interest or curiosity of.
Hibernation has long intrigued biologists.
verb
To effect or cause to be accepted or rejected by secret scheming or plotting.
verb
To engage in secret or underhand schemes; plot.
verb
The definition of an intrigue is something that is done secretly through plotting.
An example of intrigue is the story of two famous lovers played out in a gossip magazine.
noun
Intrigue is defined as to do something that gets another person interested.
An example of intrigue is a man and woman having a conversation at a bar that makes them want to know more about each other.
verb
A complicated or clandestine plot or scheme intended to effect some purpose by secret artifice; conspiracy; stratagem.
noun
(intransitive) To conceive or carry out a secret plan intended to harm; to form a plot or scheme.
verb
The plot of a play, poem or romance; the series of complications in which a writer involves their imaginary characters.
noun
A secret or underhand scheme; a plot.
noun
The practice of or involvement in such schemes.
Seized the throne by intrigue.
noun
To fill with artifice and duplicity; to complicate.
verb
Origin of intrigue
From French intriguer to plot from Italian intrigare to plot from Latin intrīcāre to entangle intricate