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Tempting vs Succulent - What's the difference?

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Tempting is a related term of succulent.


As adjectives the difference between tempting and succulent

is that tempting is attractive, appealing, enticing while succulent is juicy or lush.

As nouns the difference between tempting and succulent

is that tempting is the act of subjecting somebody to temptation while succulent is a succulent plant (such as cactus).

As a verb tempting

is .

tempting

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Attractive, appealing, enticing.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-07, author=David Simpson
  • , volume=188, issue=26, page=36, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= 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; […].}}
  • Seductive, alluring, inviting.
  • Verb

    (head)
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of subjecting somebody to temptation.
  • * (William Bridge)
  • 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?

    succulent

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • juicy or lush
  • interesting or delectable
  • (botany) having fleshy leaves or other tissues that store water
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • a succulent plant (such as cactus)