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Prepossessing vs Alluring - What's the difference?

prepossessing | alluring | Synonyms |

Prepossessing is a synonym of alluring.


As adjectives the difference between prepossessing and alluring

is that prepossessing is tending to invite favor; attracting confidence, favor, esteem, or love; attractive; as, a prepossessing manner while alluring is having the power to allure.

As a verb alluring is

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As a noun alluring is

the action of the verb allure .

prepossessing

English

(Webster 1913)

Adjective

(-)
  • Tending to invite favor; attracting confidence, favor, esteem, or love; attractive; as, a prepossessing manner.
  • *1836 , Dickens, Sketches by Boz ,
  • *:Our curate is a young gentleman of such prepossessing appearance, and fascinating manners, that within one month after his first appearance in the parish, half the young-lady inhabitants were melancholy with religion, and the other half, desponding with love.
  • *1852 , H. B. Stowe,
  • *:These natural graces in the quadroon are often united with beauty of the most dazzling kind, and in almost every case with a personal appearance prepossessing and agreeable.

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    alluring

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The action of the verb allure .

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Having the power to allure.
  • *
    • Captain Edward Carlisle, soldier as he was, martinet as he was, felt a curious sensation of helplessness seize upon him as he met her steady gaze, her alluring smile?; he could not tell what this prisoner might do.