entice

1. 1.

   provoke someone to do something through (often false or exaggerated) promises or persuasion

   “He lured me into temptation”

   Synonymsluretempt

   Broaderprovoke

   Narrowerhookseducecallstoollead ontweedledecoybait

Other forms of entice

past tense

enticed·

present participle

enticing·

third person

entices·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about entice

What does entice mean?

entice means "provoke someone to do something through (often false or exaggerated) promises or persuasion".

How many syllables are in entice?

entice has 2 syllables: en-tice. The stress falls on "tice". In IPA it is /ɪnˈtaɪs/.

What is another word for entice?

Close synonyms include lure, tempt. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is entice a common word?

entice is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.