Manipulative vs Seductive - What's the difference?
manipulative | seductive |
Using manipulation purposefully.
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, author=Robert M. Pringle
, title=How to Be Manipulative
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Tending to manipulate others.
(pejorative) Reaching one's goals at the expense of other people by using them.
A manipulable object designed to demonstrate a mathematical concept.
* {{quote-news, year=2008, date=April 25, author=Kenneth Chang, title=Study Suggests Math Teachers Scrap Balls and Slices, work=New York Times
, passage=Some children need manipulatives to learn math basics, Dr. Clements said, but only as a starting point. }}
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Attractive, alluring, tempting.
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As adjectives the difference between manipulative and seductive
is that manipulative is using manipulation purposefully while seductive is attractive, alluring, tempting.As a noun manipulative
is a manipulable object designed to demonstrate a mathematical concept.manipulative
English
Adjective
(en adjective)citation, passage=As in much of biology, the most satisfying truths in ecology derive from manipulative experimentation. Tinker with nature and quantify how it responds.}}
Noun
(en noun) (Mathematical manipulative)citation
seductive
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Adjective
(en adjective)A Cuckoo in the Nest, passage=The most rapid and most seductive transition in all human nature is that which attends the palliation of a ravenous appetite. There is something humiliating about it.