alluring

Having the power to allure.

Adjective

  1. Having the power to allure.
    • Captain Edward Carlisle, soldier as he was, martinet as he was, felt a curious sensation of helplessness seize upon him as he met her steady gaze, her alluring smile ; he could not tell what this prisoner might do. -...

Origin

By surface analysis, allure + -ing.

Forms

more alluring most alluring

Noun

  1. The act or habit of enticing or attracting in order to seek a benefit or advantage.
    • Was this poor breast, from Love's allurings free, / Cruel to all, and gentle unto thee ? - 1615, George Wither, Fidelia:
    • For, as when the red-cheeked, dancing girls, April and May, trip home to the wintry, misanthropic woods; even the barest, ruggedest, most thunder-cloven old oak will at least send forth some few green sprouts, to...
    • Lookout heights and Smoky Mountains have allurings all their own. - 1952, Daughters of the American Revolution, volume 86, page 250:

Forms

allurings

Verb

  1. present participle and gerund of allure

Derived

alluringly alluringness unalluring