Synonyms for intriguing
in·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

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1. intriguing

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

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

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1. challenging, intriguingadjective

   disturbingly provocative

   "an intriguing smile"

   Synonyms:
   challenging, ambitious, thought-provoking

   Antonyms:
   unprovocative, unprovoking, uninteresting

2. intriguingadjective

   capable of arousing interest or curiosity

   "our team came up with some most intriguing finds"

   Synonyms:
   challenging

   Antonyms:
   uninteresting, unprovoking, unprovocative

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1. intriguingadjective

   Synonyms:
   cunning, crafty, artful, sly, wily, astute, subtle, insidious, designing, arch, deceitful, trickish, TRICKY, crooked, diplomatic, politic, foxy, snaky, machiavelian

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1. intriguingadjective

   Synonyms:
   scheming, machiavelian, wily

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1. List of paraphrases for "intriguing":

   fascinating, enigmatic, puzzling, interesting, exciting, mysterious, riveting

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1. Paul Chambers:

   For a number of years, people have been speculating whether the elements involved in the insurgency in the south will be hitting other targets beyond the southern provinces, but we've never seen that happen. And it would be intriguing, if indeed there is any link, why this would happen now. almost all of the insurgent groups have been involved in a dialogue with the military government, so it's illogical for Paul Chambers to want to have a bomb.

2. Prince Charles:

   Kristen can be many things, and she can be very mysterious and very fragile an ultimately very strong as well, which is what we need, the combination of those elements made me think of her. The way she responded to the script and how she is approaching the character, it's very beautiful to see. I think she's going to do something stunning and intriguing at the same time. She is this force of nature.

3. Stuart Pocock:

   Our results suggest that doctors, public health scientists, and policy makers need to rethink how to best identify who is at high risk of dementia, we also need to pay attention to the causes and public health consequences of the link between underweight and increased dementia risk, which our research has established. However, our results also open up an intriguing new avenue in the search for protective factors for dementia.

4. Tom King:

   That’s thestory of our work, we get intriguing clues, we pursue them, and we get skunked.

5. Evan Burfield:

   Let's say you get someone to download your app. You literally have one or two or three seconds in which to have something that's intriguing to them, or they bounce.