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Intriguing vs Calculating - What's the difference?

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Intriguing is a related term of calculating.


As adjectives the difference between intriguing and calculating

is that intriguing is causing a desire to know more; mysterious while calculating is (especially of a robot) which has the ability to calculate.

As verbs the difference between intriguing and calculating

is that intriguing is while calculating 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.

    calculating

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (especially of a robot) Which has the ability to calculate.
  • (especially of a person) Which serves one's own interests in an unemotional, analytical manner.
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2011 , date=December 14 , author=Steven Morris , title=Devon woman jailed for 168 days for killing kitten in microwave , work=Guardian citation , page= , passage=Following the sentencing, Knutton said: "What sort of person does something so cold and calculating ? I did not expect her to go to jail for it. I am just glad it is now all over."}}

    Verb

    (head)