Definitions For Tempt

verb

  • Induce into action by using one's charm
  • Provoke someone to do something through (often false or exaggerated) promises or persuasion
  • Try presumptuously
  • Dispose or incline or entice to
  • Give rise to a desire by being attractive or inviting
  • Try to seduce
  • To cause (someone) to do or want to do something even though it may be wrong, bad, or unwise

Is Tempts a Scrabble Word?

Words With Friends YES
Scrabble US YES
Scrabble UK YES
English International (SOWPODS) YES
Scrabble Global YES
Enable1 Dictionary YES

Points in Different Games

Scrabble
10
Words with Friends
12

The word Tempt is worth 10 points in Scrabble and 12 points in Words with Friends

Examples of Tempt in a Sentence

  • That chocolate dessert sure tempts me, but I should stick with my diet
  • Refusing to lay in enough food for the long winter tempts the dangers of starvation

Synonyms for Tempt

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