different between engrossing vs intriguing

English

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /?n???o?s??/, /?????o?s??/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /?n?????s??/, /???????s??/

Adjective

engrossing (comparative more engrossing, superlative most engrossing)

1. Utterly consuming one's time and attention.

   Synonyms: absorbing, fascinating

Translations

Verb

engrossing

1. present participle of engross

Noun

engrossing (plural engrossings)

1. The act of one who engrosses, or buys up wholesale.

Anagrams

• grossening

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?n?t?i????/

Adjective

intriguing (comparative more intriguing, superlative most intriguing)

1. Causing a desire to know more; mysterious.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:mysterious

2. (archaic) Having clandestine or illicit intercourse.
   • 1839, Michael Ryan, Prostitution in London (page 83)

     […] 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.

Synonyms

• fascinating, interesting, attractive

Translations

Verb

intriguing

1. present participle of intrigue

Noun

intriguing (plural intriguings)

1. (dated) An intrigue.
   • 1909, Thomas Longueville, The Curious Case of Lady Purbeck

     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.