Allure
[əˈlʊə(r)] or [əˈlʊr]
Definition
(v. t.) To attempt to draw; to tempt by a lure or bait, that is, by the offer of some good, real or apparent; to invite by something flattering or acceptable; to entice; to attract.
(n.) Allurement.
(n.) Gait; bearing.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. Entice, tempt, seduce, decoy, lead, solicit, invite, attract, troll, lure, drib, engage, persuade, ensnare, coax, inveigle, TWEEDLE, toll, over-persuade, prevail upon, draw on, bring over, win over.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Entice, seduce, attract, tempt, decoy, inveigle, wheedle, lure, cajole
ANT:Alarm, deter, terrify, scare, warn
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Definition
v.t. to draw on as by a lure or bait: to entice.—n. Allure′ment.—adj. Allur′ing enticing: seductive: charming.—adv. Allur′ingly.
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Examples
- You, Tony, possess in yourself all that is calculated to charm the eye and allure the taste. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Electricity at that moment could have no allure for a youthful mind. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The vegetables in the gardens, the milk and cheese that I saw placed at the windows of some of the cottages, allured my appetite. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- Her relatives encouraged me; competitors piqued me; she allured me: a marriage was achieved almost before I knew where I was. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- How alluring the world outside the cage appeared to Lily, as she heard its door clang on her! Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- God in pity made man beautiful and alluring, after his own image; but my form is a filthy type of your's, more horrid from its very resemblance. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- To one of Edison's enthusiastic self-confidence the long vista of difficulties ahead--we say it in all sincerity--must have been alluring. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Have I then been thrown on the alluring coast of fatal Circe? Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- But on quitting Bulstrode after that conversation, a very alluring idea occurred to him about this said letting of Stone Court. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
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