Dictionary Entry
intrigue
intrigue is a 8-letter English word with 11 senses as intransitive verb, transitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To form a plot or scheme; to contrive to accomplish a purpose by secret artifice. Face value is 9 in Scrabble and 12 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
8 letters · Scrabble 9 · Words With Friends 12 · 11 senses
Definitions
- 1intransitive verb
To form a plot or scheme; to contrive to accomplish a purpose by secret artifice.
- 2intransitive verb
To carry on a secret and illicit love or amour.
- 3transitive verb
To fill with artifice and duplicity; to complicate; to embarrass.
- 4intransitive verb
Intricacy; complication.
- 5intransitive verb
A complicated plot or scheme intended to effect some purpose by secret artifice; conspiracy; stratagem.
- 6intransitive verb
The plot or romance; a complicated scheme of designs, actions, and events.
- 7intransitive verb
A secret and illicit love affair between two persons of different sexes; an amour; a liaison.
- 8noun
a crafty and involved plot to achieve your (usually sinister) ends
Synonyms
- 9noun
a clandestine love affair
- 10verb
form intrigues (for) in an underhand manner
- 11verb
cause to be interested or curious
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