alluring. adjective attractive, fascinating, enchanting, seductive, tempting, sexy, intriguing, fetching, glamorous, captivating, beguiling, bewitching, come-hither The truly alluring woman is a mix of many elements. unattractive, repellent, repulsive, repugnant, off-putting (Brit. informal), abhorrent.ysteriously jetted into the clear moonlight, or starlight, as the case might be; disappearing again for one whole day, or two days, or three; and somehow seeming at every distinct repetition to be advancing still further and further in our van, this solitary jet seemed for ever alluring us on.