Crossword clues for alluring
alluring
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Allure \Al*lure"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Alluded; p. pr. & vb. n. Alluring.] [OF. aleurrer, alurer, fr. a (L. ad) + leurre lure. See Lure.] To attempt to draw; to tempt by a lure or bait, that is, by the offer of some good, real or apparent; to invite by something flattering or acceptable; to entice; to attract.
With promised joys allured them on.
--Falconer.
The golden sun in splendor likest Heaven
Allured his eye.
--Milton.
Syn: To attract; entice; tempt; decoy; seduce.
Usage: To Allure, Entice, Decoy, Seduce. These words agree in the idea of acting upon the mind by some strong controlling influence, and differ according to the image under which is presented. They are all used in a bad sense, except allure, which has sometimes (though rarely) a good one. We are allured by the prospect or offer (usually deceptive) of some future good. We are commonly enticed into evil by appeals to our passions. We are decoyed into danger by false appearances or representations. We are seduced when drawn aside from the path of rectitude. What allures draws by gentle means; what entices leads us by promises and persuasions; what decoys betrays us, as it were, into a snare or net; what seduces deceives us by artful appeals to the passions.
Alluring \Al*lur"ing\, a. That allures; attracting; charming; tempting. -- Al*lur"ing*ly, adv. -- Al*lur"ing*ness, n.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1530s, "action of attracting," verbal noun from allure (v.).
"appealing to desires," 1570s, present participle adjective from allure (v.). Related: Alluringly.
Wiktionary
Having the power to allure. n. The action of the verb '''allure'''. v
(present participle of allure English)
WordNet
Usage examples of "alluring".
He knew that the mind which even best repels temptation first urged hath seldom power to resist the same suggestion, if daily--dropping, unwearying--presenting itself in every form, obtruded in every hour, losing its horror by custom, and finding in the rebellious bosom itself its smoothest vizard and most alluring excuse.
Contact with the cold had darkened the edges of several petals, but it remained an alluring complexity, vividly alive against the backdrop of ice and white linen.
Bitterly alluring scents came to him, and as he darted into the grass, he realized he was hungry.
Her profile, difficult to ignore in any lighting, was alluring against the moon and the night sky.
He also wrote of his feelings about the peculiarly alluring cave, and of his predictions of what he would find.
Suddenly she turned and seemed, even to Suzl, to be even more beautiful, even more alluring than ever, and she was somehow glowing.
Already his visions of her as she would be were creeping into her mind, looking desirable, alluring, and she was having more and more trouble casting them out.
And still, at wide intervals in the silvery night, the lonely, alluring jet would be seen.
I was mesmerized by the sight, ensnared by a palpable vibration that seemed to emanate from the figure, by an alluring resonance that made me feel sick and dizzy and full of buzzing, incoherent thoughts.
Everything on the menu, every appetizer, hot and cold, every salad, every fish and bird and piece of meat, was terrifically alluring, but none more than the others.
His musings even now strayed, as if beguiled, to alluring recollections of her sliding naked across his bed in her eagerness to make room for him.
Lo Manto always felt it was best to resist the temptation, that to stray too close, even to such an alluring flame, would only lead to a bad burn.
Or that Missi, apparently forever content to hover in the shadow of the alluring Zezula, would spring for a phototropic hair weave that caused her coiffure to change color as well as pattern with every light shift?
They gave out one note, so plangent, blood-freezing and alluring, that for a few seconds the company stood as if petrified.
He wondered how she could have spent the late afternoon in an airboat in the swamp and still manage to retain such an alluring scent.