That is intriguing.
Source: tatoeba (1379)
Intriguing
//ɪnˈtɹiːɡɪŋ//
Synonyms for "intriguing" (104 found)
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Strong matches (31)
Related words (52)
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Synonyms
2 entriesderived
3 entriesform of
1 entriesis a
1 entriesrelated to
5 entriessimilar
3 entriesTranslations
39 translations across 18 languages.
Arabic
2 entries- مُثِير لِلْاِهْتِمَام adj (causing a desire to know more)
- مُثِير لِلْفُضُول adj (causing a desire to know more)
Bulgarian
2 entries- интригуващ adj (causing a desire to know more)
- увлекателен adj (causing a desire to know more)
Catalan
1 entries- intrigant adj (causing a desire to know more)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 引起好奇心的 adj (causing a desire to know more)
Dutch
1 entries- intrigerend adj (causing a desire to know more)
Esperanto
1 entries- intrigado noun (an intrigue)
Finnish
3 entries- kiehtova adj (causing a desire to know more)
- kiintoisa adj (causing a desire to know more)
- mielenkiintoinen adj (causing a desire to know more)
French
1 entries- fascinant adj (causing a desire to know more)
German
3 entries- faszinierend adj (causing a desire to know more)
- fesselnd adj (causing a desire to know more)
- interessant adj (causing a desire to know more)
Hebrew
1 entries- מְאַלֵּף adj (causing a desire to know more)
Hungarian
2 entries- érdekes adj (causing a desire to know more)
- érdekfeszítő adj (causing a desire to know more)
Italian
4 entries- affascinante adj (causing a desire to know more)
- coinvolgente adj (causing a desire to know more)
- intrigante adj (causing a desire to know more)
- seducente adj (causing a desire to know more)
Norwegian
1 entries- forlokkende adj (causing a desire to know more)
Polish
1 entries- intrygujący adj (causing a desire to know more)
Portuguese
1 entries- intrigante adj (causing a desire to know more)
Russian
4 entries- занимательный adj (causing a desire to know more)
- захватывающий adj (causing a desire to know more)
- интригующий adj (causing a desire to know more)
- пленительный adj (causing a desire to know more)
Spanish
3 entries- curioso adj (causing a desire to know more)
- fascinante adj (causing a desire to know more)
- intrigante adj (causing a desire to know more)
Turkish
4 entries- ilgi çekici adj (causing a desire to know more)
- ilginç adj (causing a desire to know more)
- merak uyandırıcı adj (causing a desire to know more)
- şaşırtıcı adj (causing a desire to know more)
Sample sentences
14 total sentences available.
It's an intriguing theory, but I don't see how it can be tested.
Source: tatoeba (619783)
What makes the classics both intriguing and fascinating is that they're near enough that we can feel the similarity and they're distant enough that we have to do some work to bridge the gap.
Source: tatoeba (978221)
Tom is an intriguing guy.
Source: tatoeba (1167522)
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