Antonyms for intriguingin·trigu·ing

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1. intriguingadjective

   Synonyms:
   fascinating, attractive, interesting

2. intriguingadjective

   Causing a desire to know more; mysterious.

   Synonyms:
   attractive, fascinating, interesting

English Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:5.0 / 1 vote

1. intriguing

   Antonyms:
   aboveboard, artless, candid, fair, frank, guileless, honest, impartial, ingenuous, innocent, naive, open, simple, sincere, straightforward, transparent, truthful, unbiased, unprejudiced, unreserved, unsophisticated

   Synonyms:
   adroit, artful, crafty, cunning, deceitful, designing, diplomatic, foxy, insincere, knowing, maneuvering, sharp, shrewd, sly, subtle, tricky, wily

Princeton's WordNetRate these antonyms:3.0 / 1 vote

1. challenging, intriguingadjective

   disturbingly provocative

   "an intriguing smile"

   Antonyms:
   unprovocative, unprovoking, uninteresting

   Synonyms:
   challenging, ambitious, thought-provoking

2. intriguingadjective

   capable of arousing interest or curiosity

   "our team came up with some most intriguing finds"

   Antonyms:
   uninteresting, unprovoking, unprovocative

   Synonyms:
   challenging

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1. intriguingadjective

   Synonyms:
   scheming, machiavelian, wily

How to use intriguing in a sentence?

1. Susan Mitchell:

   This new, large study adds to this overall picture, but it only drew on data from people with White, British or Irish ancestry, more research is needed to build on its intriguing findings, and uncover whether these reported benefits also translate to minority communities, where historically dementia has often been misunderstood and highly stigmatised, and where awareness of how people can reduce their risk is low.

2. Michael Roman:

   I think Neptune is itself very intriguing to many of us because we still know so little about it, this all points towards a more complicated picture of Neptune's atmosphere and how it changes with time.

3. Rob Gronkowski:

   He has helped put the tight end position on the map, one thing that’s very intriguing about Travis Kelce, and I never really seen this with any other player in the NFL before, is that Kelce gets better every single year.

4. Maxim Behar:

   The main feature and top advantage of social media, which has made it such a powerful instrument in the hands of PR experts, is the ability to share - and especially the intriguing possibility of seeing your post go viral. In that case, your post is so catchy and contagiuos that it spreads like an epidemic and can consequently become a pandemic.

5. 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.

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