Synonyms of the word intrigue


INTRIGUECONNIVE - FASCINATE - GAME - INTEREST - MACHINATION - PLOT - ROMANCE - SCHEME

intrigue

  • n. A complicated or clandestine plot or scheme intended to effect some purpose by secret artifice; conspiracy;…
  • n. The plot of a play, poem or romance; the series of complications in which a writer involves their imaginary…
  • n. Clandestine intercourse between persons; illicit intimacy; a liaison or affair.
  • v. (intransitive) To conceive or carry out a secret plan intended to harm; to form a plot or scheme.
  • v. (transitive) To arouse the interest of; to fascinate.
  • v. (intransitive) To have clandestine or illicit intercourse.
  • v. (transitive) To fill with artifice and duplicity; to complicate.

connive

  • v. To cooperate with others secretly in order to commit a crime; to collude.
  • v. To plot or scheme.
  • v. To pretend to be ignorant of something in order to escape blame; to ignore a fault deliberately.
  • v. (archaic) To open and close the eyes rapidly; to wink.

fascinate

  • v. To evoke an intense interest or attraction in someone.
  • v. To make someone hold motionless; to spellbind.
  • v. To be irresistibly charming or attractive to.

game

  • n. A playful or competitive activity.
  • n. (countable) A video game.
  • n. (countable, informal, nearly always singular) A field of gainful activity, as an industry or profession.
  • n. (countable, figuratively) Something that resembles a game with rules, despite not being designed.
  • n. (countable, military) An exercise simulating warfare, whether computerized or involving human participants.
  • n. (uncountable) Wild animals hunted for food.
  • n. (uncountable, informal, used mostly of males) The ability to seduce someone, usually by strategy.
  • n. (countable) A questionable or unethical practice in pursuit of a goal; a scheme.
  • adj. (colloquial) Willing to participate.
  • adj. (of an animal) That shows a tendency to continue to fight against another animal, despite being wounded,…
  • adj. Persistent, especially in senses similar to the above.
  • adj. Injured, lame (of a limb).
  • v. (intransitive) To gamble.
  • v. (intransitive) To play video games and be a gamer.
  • v. (transitive) To exploit loopholes in a system or bureaucracy in a way which defeats or nullifies the spirit…
  • v. (transitive, slang, of males) To perform premeditated seduction strategy.

interest

  • n. (uncountable, finance) The price paid for obtaining, or price received for providing, money or goods in…
  • n. (uncountable) A great attention and concern from someone or something; intellectual curiosity.
  • n. (uncountable) Attention that is given to or received from someone or something.
  • n. (countable) An involvement, claim, right, share, stake in or link with a financial, business, or other…
  • n. (countable) Something one is interested in.
  • n. (obsolete, rare) Injury, or compensation for injury; damages.
  • n. (usually in the plural) The persons interested in any particular business or measure, taken collectively.
  • v. To engage the attention of; to awaken interest in; to excite emotion or passion in, in behalf of a person…
  • v. (obsolete, often impersonal) To be concerned with or engaged in; to affect; to concern; to excite.
  • v. (obsolete) To cause or permit to share.

machination

  • n. A clever scheme or artful plot, usually crafted for evil purposes.
  • n. The act of machinating or plotting.

plot

  • n. The course of a story, comprising a series of incidents which are gradually unfolded, sometimes by unexpected…
  • n. An area or land used for building on or planting on.
  • n. A graph or diagram drawn by hand or produced by a mechanical or electronic device.
  • n. A secret plan to achieve an end, the end or means usually being illegal or otherwise questionable.
  • n. Contrivance; deep reach thought; ability to plot or intrigue.
  • n. Participation in any stratagem or conspiracy.
  • n. A plan; a purpose.
  • v. (transitive) To conceive (a crime, etc).
  • v. (transitive) To trace out (a graph or diagram).
  • v. (transitive) To mark (a point on a graph, chart, etc).
  • v. (intransitive) To conceive a crime, misdeed, etc.

romance

  • n. A story relating to chivalry; a story involving knights, heroes, adventures, quests, etc.
  • n. An intimate relationship between two people; a love affair.
  • n. A strong obsession or attachment for something or someone.
  • n. Idealized love which is pure or beautiful.
  • n. A mysterious, exciting, or fascinating quality.
  • n. A story or novel dealing with idealized love.
  • n. An embellished account of something; an idealized lie.
  • n. An adventure, or series of extraordinary events, resembling those narrated in romances.
  • n. A dreamy, imaginative habit of mind; a disposition to ignore what is real.
  • n. (music) A romanza, or sentimental ballad.
  • v. Woo; court.
  • v. (intransitive) To write or tell romantic stories, poetry, letters, etc.

scheme

  • n. A systematic plan of future action.
  • n. A plot or secret, devious plan.
  • n. An orderly combination of related parts.
  • n. A chart or diagram of a system or object.
  • n. (mathematics) A type of topological space.
  • n. (Britain, chiefly Scotland) A council housing estate.
  • n. (rhetoric) An artful deviation from the ordinary arrangement of words.
  • n. (astrology) A representation of the aspects of the celestial bodies for any moment or at a given event.
  • v. (intransitive) To plot, or contrive a plan.

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