Tempting

Pronunciation

Full definition of tempting

Adjective

1. Attractive, appealing, enticing.
• 2013-06-07, David Simpson, Fantasy of navigation, It is tempting to speculate about the incentives or compulsions that might explain why anyone would take to the skies in the basket a balloon: perhaps out of a desire to escape the gravity of this world or to get a preview of the next; ….
2. Seductive, alluring, inviting.

Verb

1. Present participle of tempt

Noun

1. The act of subjecting somebody to temptation.
• William BridgeIf God doth suffer his own people and dearest children to be exposed to Satan's temptings and winnowings; Why should any man then doubt of his childship, doubt of his own everlasting condition, and say, that he is none of the child of God because he is tempted?