Entice vs. Tempt — What's the Difference?

Attract or tempt by offering pleasure or advantage

To try to get (someone) to do wrong, especially by a promise of reward.

To attract (someone), usually to do something, by arousing hope, interest, or desire

To be inviting or attractive to

(transitive) To lure; to attract by arousing desire or hope.

To provoke or to risk provoking

To draw on, by exciting hope or desire; to allure; to attract; as, the bait enticed the fishes. Often in a bad sense: To lead astray; to induce to evil; to tempt; as, the sirens enticed them to listen.

To cause to be strongly disposed

Provoke someone to do something through (often false or exaggerated) promises or persuasion;

To be attractive or inviting

(transitive) To provoke someone to do wrong, especially by promising a reward; to entice.

(transitive) To attract; to allure.

(transitive) To provoke something; to court.

To put to trial; to prove; to test; to try.

To lead, or endeavor to lead, into evil; to entice to what is wrong; to seduce.

To endeavor to persuade; to induce; to invite; to incite; to provoke; to instigate.

To endeavor to accomplish or reach; to attempt.

Dispose or incline or entice to;

Provoke someone to do something through (often false or exaggerated) promises or persuasion;

Give rise to a desire by being attractive or inviting;

Induce into action by using one's charm;

Try to seduce

Try presumptuously;