temptingly

1. 1.

   in a tempting seductive manner

   “she smiled at him seductively”

   Synonymsseductively

Questions about temptingly

What does temptingly mean?

temptingly means "in a tempting seductive manner".

How many syllables are in temptingly?

temptingly has 3 syllables: temp-tin-gly. The stress falls on "temp".

What is another word for temptingly?

Close synonyms include seductively. 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 temptingly a common word?

temptingly is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.