See Also: tempting(dictionary)
tempting(2)(dictionary)
tempting(1)(dictionary)
Tempting Tuna Parmesano(recipes)
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hypnotic(dictionary)
Hypnotic(health)
hypnotic(medicine)
hypnotic state(medicine)
hypnotic sleep(medicine)

tempting(1) (iou) and hypnotic (iou)


tempting(1) (iou)



tempting adjective. LME.
[from TEMPT verb + -ING2.]
That tempts someone; attractive, inviting.
E. Bowen To leave the house after dark..was not tempting, for lamps..were few and dim. W. Horwood Here and there the path branched up some tempting byway.
temptingly adverb L16.
temptingness noun E19.

hypnotic (iou)



hypnotic adjective & noun. E17.
[French hypnotique from late Latin hypnoticus from Greek hupnotikos putting to sleep, narcotic, from hupnoun put to sleep, from hupnos sleep: see -IC.]
A. adjective.
Inducing sleep; soporific. E17.
Of, pertaining to, or of the Nature of Hypnosis; accompanied by or producing Hypnosis. M19.
D. DeLillo He bobbed his head, speaking in a soft hypnotic singsong. U. Bentley We all slowly came to out of a hypnotic trance.
Susceptible to hypnotism; hypnotizable. L19.
b. noun.
An agent that produces sleep; spec. a sedative or soporific drug. L17.
A person under or open to the influence of hypnotism. L19.
hypnotically adverb in a hypnotic manner; by means of hypnotism: L17.