Sekirov Dictionary

intrigue

/ˈɪntɹiːɡ/

noun 4
verb 4
forms 4
phrases 1

noun4

•
A complicated or clandestine plot or scheme intended to affect some purpose by secret artifice; conspiracy; stratagem; the practice of engaging in hidden schemes.
- His betrayal was the beginning of a complex intrigue intended to give him control of the company.
•
A desire to understand something; interest or fascination.
- Your idea has aroused my intrigue.
•
The plot of a play, poem or romance; the series of complications in which a writer involves their imaginary characters.
- The story's intrigue was boring and reminiscent of a thousand better movies.
•
Clandestine intercourse between persons; illicit intimacy; a liaison or affair.
- I suspect Suzanne and her mysterious friend of being involved in an intrigue.

verb4

•
To arouse the interest of; to fascinate.
- Scenic illusions such as those caused by the haze, or the apparent diminution of scale where everything was enormous, intrigued Dutton. — 1954
To conceive or carry out a secret plan intended to harm; to form a plot or scheme.
To have clandestine or illicit intercourse.
•
To fill with artifice and duplicity; to complicate.
- And as wililye as those shrewes that beguyle hym haue holpe hym to inuolue and intryke the matter: I shall vse so playn and open a way therin, that euery man shall well see the trouth. — 1533

forms

intrigued · intriguing · intrigues · intrigueth

Phrases with intrigue

palace intrigue
A situation in which powerful individuals within an organization are working against each other.

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