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appealing
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Adjective appealing has 2 senses
- appealing(a = adj.all) Array - able to attract interest or draw favorable attention; "He added an appealing and memorable figure to popular American mythology"; "an appealing sense of humor"; "the idea of having enough money to retire at fifty is very appealing" Derived form noun appealingness1
- appealing(a = adj.all) likable, likeable, sympathetic - (of characters in literature or drama) evoking empathic or sympathetic feelings; "the sympathetic characters in the play" Derived form noun appealingness1
Antonym: unappealing
THESAURUS
appealing
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, music-flowing, music-like, musical, 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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