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

1. intransitive verb. To form a plot or scheme; to contrive to accomplish a purpose by secret artifice.
2. intransitive verb. To carry on a secret and illicit love or amour.
3. transitive verb. To fill with artifice and duplicity; to complicate; to embarrass.
4. intransitive verb. Intricacy; complication.
5. intransitive verb. A complicated plot or scheme intended to effect some purpose by secret artifice; conspiracy; stratagem.
6. intransitive verb. The plot or romance; a complicated scheme of designs, actions, and events.
7. intransitive verb. A secret and illicit love affair between two persons of different sexes; an amour; a liaison.
8. noun. a crafty and involved plot to achieve your (usually sinister) ends

   Synonyms: machination

9. noun. a clandestine love affair
10. verb. form intrigues (for) in an underhand manner

    Synonyms: connive, scheme

11. verb. cause to be interested or curious

    Synonyms: fascinate

Synonyms

machination, connive, scheme, fascinate

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in intrigue:

tigurine

Common word forms

intrigued, intriguer, intrigues, intriguing

Words from these letters

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