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Intriguing vs Breathtaking - What's the difference?

intriguing | breathtaking |

As adjectives the difference between intriguing and breathtaking

is that intriguing is causing a desire to know more; mysterious while breathtaking is stunningly beautiful; amazing.

As a verb intriguing

is .

As a noun intriguing

is an intrigue.

intriguing

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Causing a desire to know more; mysterious.

    • Synonyms

    * fascinating, interesting, attractive

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • An intrigue.
  • * Thomas Longueville, The Curious Case of Lady Purbeck
    • In all these negotiations, and caballings, and intriguings , the person most concerned, Frances Coke, the beauty and the heiress, was only the ball in the game.

    breathtaking

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • stunningly beautiful; amazing
    • He went to the and spent a week taking in the breathtaking scenery all around him.
  • Very surprising or shocking; to such a degree as to cause astonishment.
    • breathtaking beauty/stupidity/rudeness

    Derived terms

    * breathtakingly