Tempting vs Forced - What's the difference?
tempting | forced |
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)
(force)
obtained forcefully, not naturally
opened or accessed using force
As adjectives the difference between tempting and forced
is that tempting is attractive, appealing, enticing while forced is obtained forcefully, not naturally.As verbs the difference between tempting and forced
is that tempting is while forced is (force).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?
forced
English
Verb
(head)Adjective
(en adjective)- Her forced smile was harder and harder to keep as her critical father kept on complaining about her.