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 and divides as temp-tin-gly under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

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.