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. Christopher Ransom:

   We happened to have a big box of colored pencils, and he was having his seizures so frequently that we decided to ask him if he could illustrate what exactly he was seeing, and this was really intriguing to us, the drawing he produced.

2. Angelo Meda:

   This is one of the most intriguing sub-sectors in the financials space, there are a lot of companies still, and we are probably going to have only one or two big leaders in the payments space.

3. Debasish Mridha, M.D.:

   The creator created women to control those wild, uncontrollable, intriguing men.

4. Chris Stantis:

   The tombs with non-Egyptian burial customs were especially intriguing typically males buried with bronze weaponry in constructed tombs, without scarabs or other protective amulets like Egyptians would have been buried with, the most elite had equids of some sort (potentially donkeys) buried outside the tombs, often in pairs as though ready to pull a chariot. This is both a foreign characteristic of burial style, but also suggestive of someone [with] very high status.

5. Hunter Biden:

   President Gutmann, when you came to me before the [Obama] administration was up and asked me whether I [would] consider to be a professor at Penn, the first thought I had was that it sounded like an intriguing idea, but it became even more intriguing after the outcome of the [2016] election when you said I could bring along with me some serious, serious people, serious staff people and much more than staff and they start with Tony Blinken and Steve Ricchetti and others, so thank you for allowing me to bring along some really, really bright people.