alluring
[uh-loo r-ing]
- very attractive or tempting; enticing; seductive.
- fascinating; charming.
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Origin of alluring
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repugnant, repulsive, disgusting, unappealing, beastly, deformed, frightful, gross, grotesque, hideous, homely, monstrous, plain, repelling, revolting, unsightly, horrid, unalluring, animal, ordinaryExamples from the Web for unalluring
Historical Examples
And from so startling and unalluring a beginning, a marriage followed.
Customs and Fashions in Old New EnglandAlice Morse Earle
It is cold;—and would be unalluring, were it not that as a profession it is profitable.
North America, Volume II (of 2)Anthony Trollope
A small hatchet with which to chop off a chunk of porridge formed the accompaniment of this unalluring Arctic provender.
Customs and Fashions in Old New EnglandAlice Morse Earle
From this unalluring suggestion I begged off, justly pleading a hard day of work ahead.
The Book of SusanLee Wilson Dodd
Never had her bony, angular face, her slack figure and sloping shoulders seemed so unalluring.
Rich Man, Poor ManMaximilian Foster
alluring
- enticing; fascinating; attractive
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Word Origin and History for unalluring
alluring
n.
1530s, "action of attracting," verbal noun from allure (v.).
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alluring
adj.
"appealing to desires," 1570s, present participle adjective from allure (v.). Related: Alluringly.
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