ATTRACTIVE • FREE TRANSLATOR.ORG • Definition of Attractive

/ətrˈæktɪv/ Listen

Attractive

adjective

Pleasing to the eye or mind especially through beauty or charm. "An attractive personality" , "Attractive clothes" , "A book with attractive illustrations"

Having power to arouse interest. "The job is attractive because of the pay"

Having the properties of a magnet; the ability to draw or pull.

See more definitions of Attractive...

See images of 'Attractive'

Antonyms of 'Attractive'

Etymology of 'Attractive'

Related searches:

Share |

"Attractive" Quotes from Famous Books

... seen from a distance take on the most attractive appearance; they would be readily disposed to enjoy them and only consent to allow them a certain importance if they ...

— Common Sense - - Subtitle: How To Exercise It • Yoritomo-Tashi

... girl beside him. He had thought her pretty, seeing her at a distance on the night when he had dined with Dolly. Meeting her the day before, in the dim light of the drawing-room at Sloane Street, he had found her still more attractive; but on this evening, in the glamour of bright lights—young, fresh, charming as she seemed to him—his senses ...

— Sally Bishop - A Romance • E. Temple Thurston

... a few women who were all very ugly: these disagreeable creatures gave us to understand that we should by no means find them cruel—a complaisance which did not render them the less disgusting. La Perouse here describes some attractive females: these were as brown as the men, and as little dressed; their hair was cut short off, with the exception of two bunches stained red, which ...

— A New Voyage Round the World in the Years 1823, 24, 25, and 26. Vol. 1 • Otto von Kotzebue

... am hardly of your opinion. I should be unwilling to see our New England Sunday changed, except perhaps by a larger social liberty in each family. Much might be done to make it attractive to children, and relieve older persons from ennui. But after all, we must judge things by their fruits. If you bring me good apples, it is in vain to abuse the tree as craggy, rude, or homely. The ...

— Library Of The World's Best Literature, Ancient And Modern, Vol 4 • Charles Dudley Warner

... half circles heavy ridges of limestone. The ravines which seem to divide them into separate elevations, are more thickly wooded, and appear to have been grooved out by the rolling down of deep waters. The most attractive feature of these bluffs— or miniature mountains, as they might be called— is their smooth grassy surface, thinly covered over with shade trees of various kinds. Whoever has seen a large orchard on a hill side can imagine how the sides of these bluffs look. ...

— Minnesota and Dacotah • C.C. Andrews

More quotes...