Tempting vs Toothsome - What's the difference?
tempting | toothsome |
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)
Delicious.
* 1908:
Sexually attractive.
* 1989 , David John Cawdell Irving, Göring: a biography
As adjectives the difference between tempting and toothsome
is that tempting is attractive, appealing, enticing while toothsome is delicious.As a verb tempting
is .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?
toothsome
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- "It's a lot nicer than going round by the road; that is so dusty and hot," said Diana practically, peeping into her dinner basket and mentally calculating if the three juicy, toothsome , raspberry tarts reposing there were divided among ten girls, how many bites each girl would have.
- In 1919 he had been waiting at a bus stop, en route to his initiation as a Freemason: a toothsome blonde had crossed his path, and he had stalked off after her instead.
