intriguing
adjectiveverbnounattested in dialogue
- //ɪnˈtɹiːɡɪŋ//
Causing a desire to know more; mysterious.
adjective
- 1
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
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
archaicHaving clandestine or illicit intercourse.
[…] few respectable women will now sit at a window, looking into the public street, or gaze at passengers in any large town or city; and no one does so at present, unless an innocent inexperienced, husband-hunting, flirtish, or intriguing person.
verb
- 1
Also a form of intriguepresent participle and gerund of intrigue
noun
- 1
datedAn 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.
Forms
- plural
- intriguings
- comparative
- more intriguing
- superlative
- most intriguing
intriguing · Causing a desire to know more; mysterious.
intro · An introduction.introduce · To cause (someone) to be acquainted (with someone else).introduced · Not native to a location; brought from another place.