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Appealing   /əpˈilɪŋ/   Listen
Appealing

adjective
1.
Able to attract interest or draw favorable attention.  "An appealing sense of humor" , "The idea of having enough money to retire at fifty is very appealing"
2.
(of characters in literature or drama) evoking empathic or sympathetic feelings.  Synonyms: likable, likeable, sympathetic.


Appeal

verb
(past & past part. appealed; pres. part. appealing)
1.
Take a court case to a higher court for review.
2.
Request earnestly (something from somebody); ask for aid or protection.  Synonym: invoke.  "Invoke God in times of trouble"
3.
Be attractive to.  Synonym: attract.  "The beautiful garden attracted many people"
4.
Challenge (a decision).
5.
Cite as an authority; resort to.  Synonym: invoke.  "I appealed to the law of 1900" , "She invoked an ancient law"



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"Appealing" Quotes from Famous Books



... indeed! Well, I 'ope them as talks on it relishes it! The City seems give up to snow; which I can't say it greatly embellishes it. But, really, of all the dashed imperence,—s'posing of course as they meant it,— The greatest is that of the Papers appealing to Me to ...
— Punch, Or The London Charivari, Vol. 100., Jan. 10, 1891 • Various
... service of the Mennonite Church is always appealing and helpful. The music of voices, without any accompaniment of musical instrument, the simple prayers and sermons, are all devoid of ostentation or ornamentation. Amanda liked to join in the singing and did so lustily that morning. But during the sermon she often fell to dreaming. The quiet ...
— Amanda - A Daughter of the Mennonites • Anna Balmer Myers
... wreck, to drown his mental distress in animal sensations of pleasure. Such men are ready to seek relief or rescue from their danger from any quarter and at any price. Vortigern, instead of looking upon the Anglo-Saxon intruders as new enemies, conceived the idea of appealing to them for succor. He offered to convey to them a large tract of territory in the part of the island where they had landed, on condition of their aiding him in his contests with ...
— King Alfred of England - Makers of History • Jacob Abbott
... round and met her appealing face, over which the damp locks of hair straggled. The maid was fair: it was fortunate that he ...
— The Shaving of Shagpat • George Meredith
... appreciation is opposed to depreciation. It denotes an enlarged, an intensified prizing, not merely a prizing, much less—like depreciation—a lowered and degraded prizing. This enhancement of the qualities which make any ordinary experience appealing, appropriable—capable of full assimilation—and enjoyable, constitutes the prime function of literature, music, drawing, painting, etc., in education. They are not the exclusive agencies of appreciation in the most general sense of that word; but they are the ...
— Democracy and Education • John Dewey


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