intriguing
/ɪnˈtɹiːɡɪŋ/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.69 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Causing a desire to know more; mysterious.
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "A book that does not sell us the powerful, intriguing women of Rome simply as poisoners, schemers, and femmes fatales […]"
- "[…] 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."
- "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."