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The meaning of ALLURE is to entice by charm or attraction. How to use allure in a sentence. Synonym Discussion of Allure.
ALLURE definition: 1. the quality of being attractive, interesting, or exciting: 2. the quality of being attractive…. Learn more.
Synonyms for ALLURE: appeal, attractiveness, charm, fascination, attraction, glamour, seductiveness, glamor; Antonyms of ALLURE: repulsion, repulsiveness ...
- Some common synonyms of allure are attract, captivate, charm, enchant, and fascinate. While all these words mean "to draw another by exerting a pow...
- Although the words attract and allure have much in common, attract applies to any degree or kind of ability to exert influence over another. // stu...
- Charm implies the power of casting a spell over the person or thing affected and so compelling a response, but it may, like captivate, suggest no m...
- While in some cases nearly identical to allure, enchant is perhaps the strongest of these terms in stressing the appeal of the agent and the degree...
- While the synonyms fascinate and allure are close in meaning, fascinate suggests a magical influence and tends to stress the ineffectiveness of att...
2 meanings: 1. to entice or tempt (someone) to a person or place or to a course of action; attract 2. attractiveness; appeal.... Click for more definitions.
ALLURE - Synonyms, related words and examples | Cambridge English Thesaurus
allure: 1 n the power to entice or attract through personal charm Synonyms: allurement , temptingness Types: invitation a tempting allurement Type of: attraction , attractiveness the quality of arousing interest; being attractive or something that attracts v dispose or incline or entice to Synonyms: tempt Type of: bid , invite ask someone in a ...
Compare Old French alerrer to deceive (a person) by insincere words (13th cent. in an isolated attestation), (Flanders, with change of conjugation) alorir to seduce (a person) (c1240), and (with prefix substitution) Old French enleurer to attract (a person) by deceptive means (13th cent. in an isolated attestation), French alerrer (17th cent. in an isolated attestation, subsequently regional ...
