Seductive Meaning
/sɪˈdʌktɪv/Definition, CEFR level B2, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
adjAttractive, alluring, tempting.
Sentence Examples
It's a seductive idea.
He met a seductive young woman at the party.
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CEFR Practice Quiz
The advertisement used ____ imagery to make people buy products they didn't need.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The ____ aroma of freshly baked bread drew customers into the bakery from the street.
Word Origin & History
From Latin sēduct-, past-participle stem of sēdūcere, + -ive.
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"The most rapid and most seductive transition in all human nature is that which attends the palliation of a ravenous appetite. There is something humiliating about it.[…]Can those harmless but refined fellow-diners be the selfish cads whose gluttony and personal appearance so raised your contemptuous wrath on your arrival?"
— 1921, Ben Travers, chapter 5, in A Cuckoo in the Nest, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, published 1925, →OCLC:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
The advertisement used ____ imagery to make people buy products they didn't need.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The ____ aroma of freshly baked bread drew customers into the bakery from the street.