intriguing

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   disturbingly provocative

   an intriguing smile

2. 2
   adj

   capable of arousing interest or curiosity

   our team came up with some most intriguing finds

3. 3
   adj

   Causing a desire to know more; mysterious.

   As a result, while the train was being shunted at Bombay, the buffers became locked, producing a situation most intriguing for the onlookers, but exasperating for the exalted passengers and the unhappy railway authorities.

4. 4
   adj

   Involving oneself in secret plots or schemes.

   A book that does not sell us the powerful, intriguing women of Rome simply as poisoners, schemers, and femmes fatales […]

5. 5
   adj

   Having clandestine or illicit intercourse.

   […] few respectable women will now sit at a window, looking into the public street, or gaze at passengers in any large town or city; and no one does so at present, unless an innocent inexperienced, husband-hunting, flirtish, or intriguing person.

6. 6
   noun

   An intrigue.

   In all these negotiations, and caballings, and intriguings, the person most concerned, Frances Coke, the beauty and the heiress, was only the ball in the game.

7. 7
   verb

   present participle and gerund of intrigue