inviting
Inviting things are very appealing. Your host's inviting smile makes you truly feel welcomed and even a little bit charmed.
On a hot summer day, nothing looks quite as inviting as a cool, sparkling swimming pool, and when you come inside after walking home in the snow, a cozy fire in the wood stove is also quite inviting. Something inviting promises comfort or pleasure. The word comes from invitation, from the Latin invitare, "invite, treat, or entertain," which originally meant "be pleasant toward."
Definitions of inviting
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attractive and tempting“an inviting offer”
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Synonyms:
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attractive
pleasing to the eye or mind especially through beauty or charm
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invitatory
conveying an invitation
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tantalising, tantalizing, tempting
very pleasantly inviting
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tantalising, tantalizing
arousing desire or expectation for something unattainable or mockingly out of reach
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Antonyms:
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uninviting
neither attractive nor tempting
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unattractive
lacking beauty or charm
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unattractive, untempting
not appealing to the senses
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attractive
Pronunciation
US
/ɪnˈvaɪdɪŋ/
UK
/ɪnˈvaɪtɪŋ/
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