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verb

Invite v. t. (past & past part. invited; pres. part. inviting)

To ask; to request; to bid; to summon; to ask to do some act, or go to some place; esp., to ask to an entertainment or visit; to request the company of; as, to invite to dinner, or a wedding, or an excursion. "So many guests invite as here are writ." "I invite his Grace of Castle Rackrent to reflect on this."

To allure; to draw to; to tempt to come; to induce by pleasure or hope; to attract. "To inveigle and invite the unwary sense." "Shady groves, that easy sleep invite." "There no delusive hope invites despair."

To give occasion for; as, to invite criticism.

Synonyms: To solicit; bid; call; ask; summon; allure; attract; entice; persuade.

Invite v. i. To give invitation.

adjective

Inviting adj. Alluring; tempting; as, an inviting amusement or prospect. "Nothing is so easy and inviting as the retort of abuse and sarcasm."

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Etymology of 'Inviting'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Inviting" Quotes from Famous Books

... eyed the piece of paper doubtfully, and the applicant for admission still more so; then, signing to the bench in the hall, by way of permitting rather than inviting the old man to take a seat, he went slowly up the broad stairs, lined with pictures and statuary, and carpeted with thick Axminster. Mr. Clendon seated himself, leant both hands on his stick and looked around him, not ...

— The Woman's Way • Charles Garvice

... river level. Distant mountains relieve the eye accustomed to the dreary flats of the White Nile; and evergreen trees scattered over the face of the landscape, with neat little native villages beneath their shade, form a most inviting landing-place after a long and tedious voyage. This spot was formerly a mission-station. There remain to this day the ruins of the brick establishment and church, and the wreck of what was once a garden; groves of citron and lime-trees still exist, the only signs that an attempt at civilization ...

— The Albert N'Yanza, Great Basin of the Nile • Sir Samuel White Baker

... big white pine spread an inviting seat of heaped-up tags, and she slipped off the horse and leaned against the broad trunk. Johnny, at the bridle's length, nibbled at the enamelled green of the lion's tongue with equine vanity,—for he knew that it would beautify his coat,—and ...

— A Tar-Heel Baron • Mabell Shippie Clarke Pelton

... miserable condition we traveled but slowly, but the trail grew better as we proceeded, and we came in sight of Eagle River about four o'clock in the afternoon, and under the circumstances, a more pleasant, inviting village we do not recollect ever to have seen before. Four or five of our party came through the same evening, and a few others of another party came in the ...

— Thrilling Adventures by Land and Sea • James O. Brayman

... saw him next and cackled from his truck garden in the backyard, but Vic went on with a wave of his arm, and on past Gertie Vincent's inviting shout (Gertie had been his particular girl before Betty Neal came to town), and on with the determination of a soldier even past the veranda of Captain Lorrimier's saloon, though Lorrimer himself bellowed a greeting ...

— The Seventh Man • Max Brand

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