Meaning of APPEALING
| Pronunciation: | | u'peeling
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- [adj] able to attract interest or draw favorable attention; "He added an appealing and memorable figure to popular American mythology"- Vincent Starrett; "an appealing sense of humor"; "the idea of having enough money to retire at fifty is very appealing"
- [adj] expressing earnest entreaty; "the appealing and frightened look worn by an injured dog"; "she holds out her hand for money, importunate, insistent"; "a pleading note in her voice"
- [adj] (of characters in literature or drama) evoking empathic or sympathetic feelings; "the sympathetic characters in the play"
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| | Synonyms: | | attention-getting, attractive, beseeching, catchy, imploring, importunate, likable, likeable, pleading, sympathetic |
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| | Antonyms: | | unappealing, unlikable, unlikeable, unsympathetic | | |
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| | Definition: | | \Ap*peal"ing\, a.
That appeals; imploring. -- {Ap*peal"ing*ly}, adv. --
{Ap*peal"ing*ness}, n.
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| | Related Terms: | | achingly sweet, adjuratory, agreeable, agreeable-sounding, alluring, appetizing, ariose, arioso, attracting, attractive, begging, beguiling, beseeching, bewitching, blandishing, cajoling, canorous, cantabile, captivating, catching, catchy, charismatic, charming, coaxing, come-hither, coquettish, delightful, dulcet, enchanting, engaging, enravishing, enthralling, enticing, entrancing, entreating, euphonic, euphonious, euphonous, exciting, exotic, exquisite, fascinating, fetching, fine-toned, flirtatious, glamorous, golden, golden-tongued, golden-voiced, heart-robbing, honeyed, hypnotic, imploring, interesting, intriguing, inviting, irresistible, lovely, luxurious, melic, mellifluent, mellifluous, mellisonant, mellow, melodic, melodious, mesmeric, mouth-watering, musical, music-flowing, music-like, piquant, pleading, pleasant, pleasant-sounding, precative, precatory, prepossessing, provocative, provoquant, ravishing, rich, seducing, seductive, sensuous, silver-toned, silver-tongued, silver-voiced, silvery, singable, siren, sirenic, songful, songlike, sonorous, spellbinding, spellful, sweet, sweet-flowing, sweet-sounding, taking, tantalizing, teasing, tempting, thrilling, tickling, titillating, titillative, tunable, tuneful, voluptuous, winning, winsome, witching |
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