seductive

English

Alternative forms

• seducive (obsolete)

Etymology

From Latin sēduct-, past-participle stem of sēdūcere, +‎ -ive.

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /sɪˈdʌktɪv/　

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Adjective

seductive (comparative more seductive, superlative most seductive)

1. Attractive, alluring, tempting.

   Evil is said to be seductive, which is one reason why people do what they know they shouldn't.

   • 1921, Ben Travers, chapter 5, in A Cuckoo in the Nest, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, published 1925, →OCLC:

     The most rapid and most seductive transition in all human nature is that which attends the palliation of a ravenous appetite. There is something humiliating about it. […] Can those harmless but refined fellow-diners be the selfish cads whose gluttony and personal appearance so raised your contemptuous wrath on your arrival?

Related terms

• seductress
• seducement
• seduce
• seduction

Collocations

with nouns

• seductive woman
• seductive lady
• seductive girl
• seductive power
• seductive art
• seductive image
• seductive behavior
• seductive smile
• seductive dress
• seductive dance
• seductive tango
• seductive song
• seductive look

Translations

attractive, alluring, tempting

• Bulgarian: съблазнителен (bg) (sǎblaznitelen), привлекателен (bg) (privlekatelen)
• Catalan: seductor
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 诱人的, 誘人的／诱人的, 妖媚 (zh) (yāomèi), 富有魅力的,

• Czech: svůdný, vábivý, lákavý
• Finnish: viettelevä (fi)
• French: séduisant (fr)
• German: verführerisch (de)
• Greek: δελεαστικός (el) (deleastikós), θελκτικός (el) (thelktikós)
• Japanese: 悩ましい (ja), あだっぽい, 艶めかしい (ja), 誘惑的な
• Korean: 매혹적인 (maehokjeogin), 유혹적인 (yuhokjeogin)
• Latin: pellax
• Malayalam: വശീകരിക്കുന്ന (vaśīkarikkunna)
• Ottoman Turkish: جاذب (câzib)
• Polish: uwodzicielski (pl)
• Portuguese: sedutor (pt), seduzente (pt)
• Russian: соблазни́тельный (ru) (soblaznítelʹnyj)
• Scottish Gaelic: buaireanta, meallach, tarraingeach, mealltach
• Spanish: seductor (es)
• Swedish: förförisk (sv)
• Ukrainian: споку́сливий (spokúslyvyj)