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Definitions for intriguing
in·trigu·ing

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. challenging, intriguingadjective

    disturbingly provocative

    "an intriguing smile"

  2. intriguingadjective

    capable of arousing interest or curiosity

    "our team came up with some most intriguing finds"

Wiktionary

  1. intriguingadjective

    Causing a desire to know more; mysterious.

ChatGPT

  1. intriguing

    Intriguing refers to something that arouses curiosity or interest; something that is captivating, fascinating or mysterious. It is often used to describe situations, ideas, or people that are complex and hard to understand but captivating and appealing because of these complexities.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Intriguing

    of Intrigue

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of intriguing in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of intriguing in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2

Examples of intriguing in a Sentence

  1. Brett Falkoff:

    Bryson has always been an innovator. Having the opportunity to get in on the ground floor of something unique has always been intriguing to him, professional golf as we know it is changing and it’s happening quickly.

  2. Laurie Ryan:

    It's intriguing, but it doesn't tell us a lot yet at this point.

  3. Patrick McGovern:

    The proposal that the cannabis was heated to release psychoactive compounds, rather than for its aroma as an incense (provided by the frankincense, in any case), is an intriguing proposition.

  4. Alessio Fasano:

    So I think it's an intriguing fact that there are African American people that choose to go gluten-free because the fact that they embrace the diet along with the fact that the diet is more expensive and nevertheless they do follow it, that it's clearly not because of fashionable reasons, but because they feel that was the best way to control their symptoms, you can't necessarily say that (gluten) sensitivity is more frequent among African-Americans because of this – that would be a stretch.

  5. Debasish Mridha, M.D.:

    The creator created women to control those wild, uncontrollable, intriguing men.

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