Seductive vs Captivate - What's the difference?
seductive | captivate |
Attractive, alluring, tempting.
*{{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Ben Travers)
, chapter=5, title= To attract and hold interest and attention of; charm.
* Washington Irving
*, chapter=3
, title= (obsolete) To take prisoner; to capture; to subdue.
* Shakespeare
* Glanvill
As an adjective seductive
is attractive, alluring, tempting.As a verb captivate is
to attract and hold interest and attention of; charm.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.
Usage notes
* Nouns to which "seductive" is often applied: woman, lady, girl, power, art, image, behavior, smile, dress, dance, tango, song, etc.captivate
English
Verb
(captivat)- small landscapes of captivating loveliness
The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=One saint's day in mid-term a certain newly appointed suffragan-bishop came to the school chapel, and there preached on “The Inner Life.” He at once secured attention by his informal method, and when presently the coughing of Jarvis […] interrupted the sermon, he altogether captivated his audience with a remark about cough lozenges being cheap and easily procurable.}}
- Their woes whom fortune captivates .
- 'Tis a greater credit to know the ways of captivating Nature, and making her subserve our purposes, than to have learned all the intrigues of policy.