tempter
noun
a person or thing that tempts, especially to evil.
Showing results for tempter.
Search instead for
tempters.
tempter
American
[temp-ter]
/ ˈtɛmp tər /
Tempter
British
/ ˈtɛmptə /
noun
Etymology
Origin of tempter
1350–1400; tempt + -er 1; replacing Middle English temptour < Old French temptere, temptëor < Late Latin temptātōr-, stem of temptātor tempter (to sin), Latin: one who makes an attempt; tempt, -tor
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
See Examples For:
However, future price increases “will likely incentivize additional supply coming online and tempter pricing upside to an extent,” in Baird’s view.
From Barron's ● Apr. 17, 2026
In it, he draws parallels between Jack Nicholson’s character and the devil: “a tempter who draws people into his sphere of influence.”
From Washington Post ● Mar. 3, 2023
Somebody was the tempter, the proactive initiator, and it wasn't the colleges.
From Salon ● May 27, 2019
Many of his targets will forever rue the day they agreed to sit down with this shape-shifter, this tempter who brings out their worst side under the camera’s glare.
From Washington Times ● Jul. 15, 2018
Almost at the same time, the tempter whom Father Gomez was setting out to follow was being tempted herself.
From "The Amber Spyglass" by Philip Pullman
But the final time I saw the Tempter, he came in the clothes and body of Joseph, the man who married my mother and raised me--not a bad man but hard on us all.
From Time Magazine Archive
If Ted could climb out on top, Tempter Kramer would next try to steer him into the U.S. title at Forest Hills in September.
From Time Magazine Archive
It is interesting to note that when our Lord was assailed in the wilderness by the Tempter, His method of resistance was to turn immediately to the consideration of His Father's word.
From The Warfare of the Soul Practical Studies in the Life of Temptation by Shirley C. Hughson
He was an Hungry; and when the Tempter came to him, he said, If thou be the Son of God, Command that these Stones be made Bread.
From The Wonders of the Invisible World Being an Account of the Tryals of Several Witches Lately Executed in New-England, to which is added A Farther Account of the Tryals of the New-England Witches by Cotton Mather
Was it my misfortune or my crime that the citadel of my heart was weak, and that I could not drive out the Tempter, who had been permitted to besiege and enter it?
From Jasper Lyle by Harriet Ward
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
