tempts
Offers forbidden fruit
Tempts is the third-person singular of tempt—to entice someone toward something appealing but potentially unwise or forbidden.
Food tempts the hungry, easy money tempts the desperate, and forbidden fruit tempts everyone: The chocolate cake tempts me every time I walk past.
What tempts often carries a hint of danger or moral risk, though it can be playful: That beach vacation really tempts me.
Attractive, tempting quality
persuade · attract · charm · beckon · invite · draw · appeal · seduce
Playful romantic attention
- coquetryPlayful amorous behavior
- temptressWoman who entices
- vixenFemale of Reynard's kind
- sirenWailing alert device
aphrodisiac · pheromones · infatuation · romance · courtship · wiles · conquest · forbidden
Predetermined course of events
- dangerExposure to harm
- devilEvil supernatural entity
- providenceDivine protective care
- disasterSudden ruinous event
recklessness · gamble · chance · hubris · folly · dare · audacity · brinkmanship
Powerful urge to have
- longingIntense, persistent desire
- yearningIntense prolonged craving
- hungerNeed for nourishment
- thirstNeed for fluid
urge · want · appetite · inclination · fancy · itch · pull · drive
Sweet from cacao seeds
- sweetsSugary food items
- dessertSweet course after dinner
- treatSomething pleasantly special
- forbidden fruitEnticing thing that's prohibited
guilty pleasure · luxury · decadence · splurge · cheesecake · pastry · wine · delicacy
allure
Attractive, tempting quality
coax · persuade · attract · charm · beckon · invite · draw · appeal · seduce · captivate
flirtation
Playful romantic attention
siren · aphrodisiac · pheromones · infatuation · romance · courtship · wiles · conquest · forbidden · liaison
fate
Predetermined course of events
- dangerExposure to harm
- devilEvil supernatural entity
- providenceDivine protective care
disaster · recklessness · gamble · chance · hubris · folly · dare · audacity · brinkmanship
craving
Powerful urge to have
thirst · urge · want · appetite · inclination · fancy · itch · pull · drive · impulse
chocolate
Sweet from cacao seeds
forbidden fruit · guilty pleasure · luxury · decadence · splurge · cheesecake · pastry · wine · delicacy · comfort food
- tarnishesblemishes, blots, corrupts, defames, denigrates
- tempting fateRisking bad outcomes recklessly
- tempt fateRecklessly invite misfortune
- tempted fateRecklessly invited misfortune
- temptation of ChristSatan's desert testing of Jesus
- temptation of JesusDevil's desert challenge
- Temptation IslandDating competition reality series
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