seductress

[si-duhk-tris]

noun

1. a woman who seduces.

Gender Note

See -ess.

Word History and Origins

Origin of seductress¹

1795–1805; obsolete sedut ( o ) r (< Late Latin sēductor; seduce, -tor ) + -ess

Example Sentences

Like the nasty seductress of “Dangerous Liaisons,” she’s a warning that frustrated women aren’t merely a hazard to themselves — they’re a menace to the society that made them.

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Dakota Johnson is my favorite seductress, a femme fatale of a flavor that didn’t exist until she invented it.

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Holding an ax, she was portrayed as a murderous, wealth-seeking seductress who had beheaded her husbands, evident by their heads disappearing from the wedding portraits scattered around the attic.

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Holding an axe, she was portrayed as a murderous, wealth-seeking seductress who had beheaded her husbands, evident by their heads disappearing from the wedding portraits scattered around the attic.

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And that was one of the things that we kind of came up with — “the light switch” is what we called it, of Teri the therapist and Teri the seductress.

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