appealing

appealing /ə'pi:liɳ/
  • tính từ
    • van lơn, cầu khẩn
      • with an appealing look: với vẻ cầu khẩn
      • an appealing gaze: cái nhìn cầu khẩn
    • cảm động, thương tâm, làm mủi lòng
      • an appealing voice: giọng nói thương tâm
    • lôi cuốn, quyến rũ

Xem thêm: sympathetic, likeable, likable, imploring, importunate, pleading, entreaty, prayer, appealingness, charm, solicitation, collection, ingathering, invoke, attract, invoke



appealing

Từ điển Collocation

appealing adj.

VERBS be, look, seem, sound | make sth The large salary made their offer even more appealing to him. | find sth I find his manner very appealing.

ADV. enormously, extremely, very | quite, rather | immediately

PREP. to These toys are not immediately appealing to children.


Từ điển WordNet

    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

  • (of characters in literature or drama) evoking empathic or sympathetic feelings; sympathetic, likeable, likable

    the sympathetic characters in the play

  • expressing earnest entreaty; imploring, importunate, pleading

    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

    n.

  • earnest or urgent request; entreaty, prayer

    an entreaty to stop the fighting

    an appeal for help

    an appeal to the public to keep calm

  • attractiveness that interests or pleases or stimulates; appealingness, charm

    his smile was part of his appeal to her

  • (law) a legal proceeding in which the appellant resorts to a higher court for the purpose of obtaining a review of a lower court decision and a reversal of the lower court's judgment or the granting of a new trial

    their appeal was denied in the superior court

  • request for a sum of money; solicitation, collection, ingathering

    an appeal to raise money for starving children

    v.

  • take a court case to a higher court for review

    He was found guilty but appealed immediately

  • request earnestly (something from somebody); ask for aid or protection; invoke

    appeal to somebody for help

    Invoke God in times of trouble

  • be attractive to; attract

    The idea of a vacation appeals to me

    The beautiful garden attracted many people

  • challenge (a decision)

    She appealed the verdict

  • cite as an authority; resort to; invoke

    He invoked the law that would save him

    I appealed to the law of 1900

    She invoked an ancient law


English Synonym and Antonym Dictionary


syn.: imploring importunate likable likeable pleading sympathetic
appeals|appealed|appealing
syn.: beg entreat implore plead