intriguing

Definitions

1. 1

   Causing a desire to know more

   Causing a desire to know more; mysterious.

   • As a result, while the train was being shunted at Bombay, the buffers became locked, producing a situation most intriguing for the onlookers, but exasperating for the exalted passengers and the unhappy railway authorities.
2. 2

   Involving oneself in secret plots or schemes.

   • A book that does not sell us the powerful, intriguing women of Rome simply as poisoners, schemers, and femmes fatales […]
3. 3

   Having clandestine or illicit intercourse.

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   1. 4

      present participle and gerund of intrigue

   2. 5

      An intrigue.

      • In all these negotiations, and caballings, and intriguings, the person most concerned, Frances Coke, the beauty and the heiress, was only the ball in the game.

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• synonymfascinating
• synonyminteresting
• synonymattractive