What's the difference between
and
Enter two words to compare and contrast their definitions, origins, and synonyms to better understand how those words are related.

Tempting vs Welcoming - What's the difference?

tempting | welcoming | Related terms |

Tempting is a related term of welcoming.


As adjectives the difference between tempting and welcoming

is that tempting is attractive, appealing, enticing while welcoming is hospitable, accessible and cordial.

As verbs the difference between tempting and welcoming

is that tempting is while welcoming is .

As nouns the difference between tempting and welcoming

is that tempting is the act of subjecting somebody to temptation while welcoming is an act of giving welcome.

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?

    welcoming

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • hospitable, accessible and cordial.
  • Derived terms

    * welcomingly * welcomingness

    Verb

    (head)
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • An act of giving welcome.