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Attractive vs Luring - What's the difference?

attractive | luring |

As an adjective attractive

is causing attraction; having the quality of attracting by inherent force.

As a verb luring is

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As a noun luring is

allurement.

attractive

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Causing attraction; having the quality of attracting by inherent force.
  • Having the power of charming or alluring by agreeable qualities; enticing.
    • That's a very attractive offer.
  • Pleasing or appealing to the senses.
    • He is an attractive fellow with a trim figure.

    Synonyms

    * (causing attraction) magnetic * (having the power of charming) desirable * (pleasing or appealing to the senses) pretty, beautiful

    Antonyms

    * (having the power of charming) repulsive, ugly * (pleasing or appealing to the senses) repulsive, ugly * unattractive

    Related terms

    () * attractively * attractiveness * attractivity

    References

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    luring

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • allurement
  • * 1988 , Ruth Salvaggio, Enlightened Absence: Neoclassical Configurations of the Feminine
    • Perhaps the most striking instance of this desired appropriation of color, particularly the color that Pope associated with nature and, through nature, with the muse and all her feminine lurings , can be found in Windsor-Forest
  • * 2004 , Adam Edwards, Peter Gill, Transnational Organised Crime: Perspectives on Global Security
    • carry on with all their endeavours for many months or even years, building up a reputation of invulnerability in the process and thus presenting a bad example to those susceptible to the seemingly profitable lurings of crime.

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