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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. Pete Schultz:

    It's too soon to say if there was a causal connection or not, but what we can say is that this event did happen around the same time as when we think the megafauna disappeared, which is intriguing, there's also a chance that this was actually witnessed by early inhabitants, who had just arrived in The Atacama Desert. It would have been quite a show.

  2. David Horvath:

    The young age of this deposit absolutely raises the possibility that there could still be volcanic activity on Mars, and it is intriguing that recent Marsquakes detected by the InSight mission are sourced from Cerberus Fossae.

  3. Philippe Pouletty:

    I told him in a half serious, half joking mode, that I had a capitalist proposal, his response after more than 30 seconds was 'That's indeed very intriguing, but if you want us to reach an agreement quickly, that's not the fastest route. It's a few years too soon.'.

  4. Von Teese:

    I found that some of the strongest performers were not people that fit into the pretty little pinup girl stereotype, i found the strongest performers were people that were sort of, you know, the super strong personalities with incredible performance ideas and they were the most fascinating and intriguing, and the ones that could hold their own on stage the most. Then I put the show together and I found that so many people were inspired to see different people on stage.

  5. Dean Lomax:

    The most intriguing feature of our footprint is a long portion preserved at the back of the foot, which is an impression of what we call the metapodium, the presence of this might suggest our large meat-eater was squatting down in the mud, before standing up and walking away. It’s fun to think this dinosaur might well have been strolling along a muddy coastal plain one lazy Sunday afternoon in the Jurassic.

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