Definitions for temptress

temptress tempt·ress

Spelling: [temp-tris]
IPA: /ˈtɛmp trɪs/

Temptress is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 275 anagrams from letters in temptress (eemprsstt).

Definitions for temptress

noun

  1. a woman who tempts, entices, or allures.

Origin of temptress

First recorded in 1585-95; tempt(e)r + -ess

Examples for temptress

While she is pretty, she does not dress the part of the temptress.

I believe, further, that every man has his own tempter or temptress.

Kelley has been aggressively fighting the stereotype of the social gadfly and  temptress.

Who set you on as decoy and temptress, and what reward did you receive?

Maximilian thought of that other empire, which that other temptress exacted of him.

“If you think how to get by them, Herbert, you can,” urged the temptress.

One would suppose that she is the temptress, and man is the victim.

Not only youth must be safeguarded, but also the "female," the untrustworthy one, the temptress.

In one second he had drawn his sword and stabbed his temptress to the heart.

Then you are nothing, less than nothing; you are the temptress, the mistress!

Word Value for temptress
Scrable

13

Words with friends

15

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