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1. Attractive and tempting
   "an inviting offer"

1. Increase the likelihood of
   "invite criticism";
   - ask for
    
2. Ask someone to one's house; give an invitation to
   "Can I invite you for dinner on Sunday night?";
   - ask over, ask round
    
3. Give rise to a desire by being attractive or inviting
   "the window displays invited the shoppers";
   - tempt
    
4. Ask someone in a friendly way to do something
   - bid
    
5. Have as a guest
   "I invited them to a restaurant";
   - pay for
    
6. Ask to enter
   "We invited the neighbours in for a cup of coffee";
   - ask in
    
7. Request the participation or presence of
   "The organizers invite submissions of papers for the conference";
   - call for
    
8. Express willingness to have in one's home or environs
   "The community warmly invited the refugees";
   - receive, take in

See also: ask, attractive, invitatory, invite out, tantalising [Brit], tantalizing, tempting

Type of: arouse, ask for, bespeak, call for, elicit, enkindle [literary], evoke, excite, fire, interact, kindle, provoke, quest, raise, request, shake, shake up, stimulate, stir

Antonym: uninviting

Encyclopedia: Invite