Tempts Synonyms and Antonyms

Give rise to a desire by being attractive or inviting
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. invites
  2. allures
  3. provokes
  4. courts
Antonyms:
  1. repulses
  2. discourages
To try to get (someone) to do wrong, especially by a promise of reward.
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. lures

Tempts Sentence Examples

  • Not until the third act does the great Wagner arbitrate in the struggle between amateurishness and theatricality in the music, though at all points his epoch-making stagecraft asserts itself with a force that tempts us to treat the whole work as if it were on the Wagnerian plane of Tannhauser's account of his pilgrimage in the third act.

  • The close dependency of all mental operations on brain also tempts them to the conclusion that brain is not only an organ, but the whole organ of conscious mind.'

  • This was a digression of a new kind, if anything can be called a digression in a work the plan of which is to fly off at a tangent whenever and wherever the writer's whim tempts him.

  • First Secondly, the devil tempts you to financial indiscipline.

  • This is the tidbit which tempts his insectivorous fate.

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