Tempting vs Beautiful - What's the difference?
tempting | beautiful |
Attractive, appealing, enticing.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-07, author=David Simpson
, volume=188, issue=26, page=36, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly)
, title= Seductive, alluring, inviting.
The act of subjecting somebody to temptation.
* (William Bridge)
Attractive and possessing charm.
* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=5 (of the weather) Pleasant; clear.
Well executed.
(as a pro-sentence ) How beautiful that is!
(as a pro-sentence; ironic ) How unfortunate that is!
As adjectives the difference between tempting and beautiful
is that tempting is attractive, appealing, enticing while beautiful is attractive and possessing charm.As a verb tempting
is present participle of lang=en.As a noun tempting
is the act of subjecting somebody to temptation.tempting
English
Adjective
(en adjective)Fantasy of navigation, passage=It is tempting to speculate about the incentives or compulsions that might explain why anyone would take to the skies in [the] basket [of a balloon]: perhaps out of a desire to escape the gravity of this world or to get a preview of the next; […].}}
Verb
(head)Noun
(en noun)- If God doth suffer his own people and dearest children to be exposed to Satan's temptings and winnowings; Why should any man then doubt of his childship, doubt of his own everlasting condition, and say, that he is none of the child of God because he is tempted?
beautiful
English
Adjective
(en adjective)citation, passage=‘It's rather like a beautiful Inverness cloak one has inherited. Much too good to hide away, so one wears it instead of an overcoat and pretends it's an amusing new fashion.’}}
- (referring to an athlete catching a ball)