Allure

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  • intransitive verb. To attract with something desirable; entice.
  • intransitive verb. To be highly, often subtly attractive.
  • noun. The power to attract; enticement.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. Allurement.
  • noun. Same as alure.
  • To tempt by the offer of some good, real or apparent; invite by something flattering or acceptable; draw or try to draw by some proposed pleasure or advantage: as, rewards allure men to brave danger.
  • To attract; fascinate; charm.
  • Synonyms Allure, Lure, Entice, Decoy, Seduce, attract, invite, coax, engage, prevail on. The first five words imply the exercise of strong but subtle influences over the mind or senses. Allure, lure, to attract by a lure or bait, to draw by appealing to the hope of gain or the love of pleasure, differ but little; the former, however, seems to imply a more definite object than lure, which retains perhaps a little more of the original meaning, though it is less often used. Entice expresses most of skill, subtlety, flattery, or fair speech. Decoy is to lead into a snare by false appearances; this word is the one most commonly used in a physical sense. Seduce, to lead astray, generally from rectitude, but sometimes from interest or truth.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • transitive verb. 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.
  • noun. Allurement.
  • noun. Gait; bearing.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. The power to attract, entice; the quality causing attraction.
  • noun. gait; bearing
  • verb. To entice; to attract.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • verb. dispose or incline or entice to
  • noun. the power to entice or attract through personal charm
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