'Intrigue' definitions:
Definition of 'intrigue'
(from WordNet)
noun
A crafty and involved plot to achieve your (usually sinister) ends [syn: intrigue, machination]
noun
A clandestine love affair
verb
Cause to be interested or curious [syn: intrigue, fascinate]
verb
Definition of 'Intrigue'
From: GCIDE
- Intrigue \In*trigue"\ ([i^]n*tr[=e]g"), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Intrigued (-tr[=e]gd"); p. pr. & vb. n. Intriguing.] [F. intriguer, OF. intriquer, entriquer; cf. It. intrigare. See Intricate, Extricate.]
- 1. To form a plot or scheme; to contrive to accomplish a purpose by secret artifice. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To carry on a secret and illicit love or amour. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Intrigue'
From: GCIDE
- Intrigue \In*trigue"\, v. t. To fill with artifice and duplicity; to complicate; to embarrass. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
- How doth it [sin] perplex and intrique the whole course of your lives! --Dr. J. Scott. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Intrigue'
From: GCIDE
- Intrigue \In*trigue"\, n. [Cf. F. intrique. See Intrigue, v. i.] [1913 Webster]
- 1. Intricacy; complication. [Obs.] --Sir M. Hale. [1913 Webster]
- 2. A complicated plot or scheme intended to effect some purpose by secret artifice; conspiracy; stratagem. [1913 Webster]
- Busy meddlers with intrigues of state. --Pomfret. [1913 Webster]
- 3. The plot of a play or romance; a complicated scheme of designs, actions, and events. --Pope. [1913 Webster]
- 4. A secret and illicit love affair between two persons of different sexes; an amour; a liaison. [1913 Webster]
- The hero of a comedy is represented victorious in all his intrigues. --Swift.
- Syn: Plot; scheme; conspiracy; machination. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'intrigue'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- absorb,
- adulterous affair,
- adultery,
- affair,
- amor,
- amour,
- angle,
- appeal,
- art,
- artful dodge,
- artfulness,
- artifice,
- attract,
- backstairs influence,
- becharm,
- beguile,
- bewitch,
- blind,
- brew,
- Byzantine intrigues,
- cabal,
- captivate,
- carry away,
- cast a spell,
- charm,
- chicanery,
- cogitate,
- collogue,
- collude,
- collusion,
- complicity,
- complot,
- concoct,
- confederacy,
- connections,
- connivance,
- connive,
- conspiracy,
- conspire,
- contrivance,
- contrive,
- contriving,
- cook up,
- countermine,
- counterplot,
- coup,
- covin,
- craft,
- craftiness,
- credibility gap,
- cuckoldry,
- cute trick,
- deals,
- deceit,
- deceitfulness,
- deception,
- deep-laid plot,
- design,
- device,
- devise,
- disingenuousness,
- dodge,
- double-dealing,
- enchant,
- engineer,
- engineering,
- enrapture,
- enravish,
- entanglement,
- enthrall,
- entrance,
- eternal triangle,
- excite,
- expedient,
- fakement,
- falseheartedness,
- fascinate,
- feint,
- fetch,
- finagle,
- finagling,
- finesse,
- flirtation,
- forbidden love,
- forswearing,
- frame,
- frame up,
- frame-up,
- fraud,
- gambit,
- game,
- games,
- gerrymander,
- gimmick,
- grift,
- guile,
- hanky-panky,
- hatch,
- hatch a plot,
- hatch up,
- hypnotize,
- illicit love,
- infatuate,
- infidelity,
- influence peddling,
- insincerity,
- interest,
- intimacy,
- intrigues,
- jockey,
- jugglery,
- knavery,
- lay a plot,
- liaison,
- little game,
- lobbying,
- lobbyism,
- love affair,
- machinate,
- machination,
- maneuver,
- maneuvering,
- manipulate,
- manipulation,
- mesmerize,
- move,
- operate,
- perjury,
- pique,
- play games,
- plot,
- plotting,
- ploy,
- ploys,
- practice,
- pull strings,
- racket,
- red herring,
- rig,
- rigging,
- romance,
- romantic tie,
- ropes,
- ruse,
- scheme,
- schemery,
- schemes,
- scheming,
- sharp practice,
- shift,
- sleight,
- spell,
- spellbind,
- stratagem,
- strategy,
- strings,
- subterfuge,
- tactic,
- titillate,
- transport,
- triangle,
- trick,
- trickery,
- uncandidness,
- uncandor,
- underplot,
- unfaithfulness,
- unfrankness,
- unsincereness,
- untruthfulness,
- vamp,
- wangle,
- web of intrigue,
- wile,
- wily device,
- wire-pulling,
- wires,
- witch