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INTRIGUING
intriguing
(adjective) capable of arousing interest or curiosity; “our team came up with some most intriguing finds”
challenging, intriguing
(adjective) disturbingly provocative; “an intriguing smile”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Adjective
intriguing (comparative more intriguing, superlative most intriguing)
Causing a desire to know more; mysterious.
Synonym: Thesaurus:mysterious
(archaic) Having clandestine or illicit intercourse.
Synonyms
• fascinating, interesting, attractive
Verb
intriguing
present participle of intrigue
Noun
intriguing (plural intriguings)
(dated) An intrigue.
In all these negotiations, and caballings, and intriguings, the person most concerned, Frances Coke, the beauty and the heiress, was only the ball in the game.
Source: Wiktionary
INTRIGUE
In*trigue", v. i. [imp. & p. p. Intrigued; p. pr. & vb. n. Intriguing.] Etym: [F. intriguer, OF. intriquer, entriquer; cf. It. intrigare. See Intricate, Extricate.]
1. To form a plot or scheme; to contrive to accomplish a purpose by secret artifice.
2. To carry on a secret and illicit love or amour.
In*trigue", v. t.
Definition: To fill with artifice and duplicity; to complicate; to embarrass. [Obs.] How doth it [sin] perplex and intrique the whole course of your lives! Dr. J. Scott.
In*trigue", n. Etym: [Cf. F. intrique. See Intrigue, v. i.]
1. Intricacy; complication. [Obs.] Sir M. Hale.
2. A complicated plot or scheme intended to effect some purpose by secret artifice; conspiracy; stratagem. Busy meddlers with intrigues of state. Pomfret.
3. The plot or romance; a complicated scheme of designs, actions, and events. Pope.
4. A secret and illicit love affair between two persons of different sexes; an amour; a liaison. The hero of a comedy is represented victorious in all his intrigues. Swift.
Syn.
– Plot; scheme; conspiracy; machination.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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