different between tempt vs untempted
tempt
English
Etymology
From Middle English tempten, from Old French tempter (French: tenter), from Latin temptare, from tentare (“to handle, touch, try, test, tempt”), frequentative of tenere (“to hold”). Displaced native English costning (“temptation”).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA(key): /t?mpt/, /t?mt/
- Rhymes: -?mpt, -?mt
Verb
tempt (third-person singular simple present tempts, present participle tempting, simple past and past participle tempted)
- (transitive) To provoke someone to do wrong, especially by promising a reward; to entice.
- (transitive) To attract; to allure.
- (transitive) To provoke something; to court.
Synonyms
- (provoke someone to do wrong): entice, fand, lure, pander, tease
- (attract; allure): beguile, entrance; see also Thesaurus:allure
- (provoke something): foment, urge; see also Thesaurus:incite
Derived terms
Translations
Further reading
- tempt in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- tempt in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- tempt at OneLook Dictionary Search
Latvian
Verb
tempt (tr., 1st conj., pres. tempju, temp, tempj, past tempu)
- to gulp
- to swill
- to quaff
Conjugation
tempt From the web:
- what temptation is still alive
- what temperature
- what temptations did jesus face
- what temp
- what temperature is a fever
- what temptation is common to man
- what temptation means
- what temperature is chicken done
untempted
English
Etymology
un- +? tempted
Adjective
untempted (comparative more untempted, superlative most untempted)
- Not tempted.
untempted From the web:
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