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ap⋅peal⋅ing

   [uh-pee-ling]
–adjective
evoking or attracting interest, desire, curiosity, sympathy, or the like; attractive.
Origin:
1400–50; late ME; see appeal, -ing 2
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Language Translation for : Appealing
Spanish: encantador, German: ansprechend, Japanese: 魅力的な
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ap·peal     (ə-pēl')  Pronunciation Key 
n.  
  1. An earnest or urgent request, entreaty, or supplication.
  2. A resort to a higher authority or greater power, as for sanction, corroboration, or a decision: an appeal to reason; an appeal to her listener's sympathy.
  3. Law
    1. The transfer of a case from a lower to a higher court for a new hearing.
    2. A case so transferred.
    3. A request for a new hearing.
  4. The power of attracting or of arousing interest: a city with special appeal for museumgoers.
v.   ap·pealed, ap·peal·ing, ap·peals

v.   intr.
  1. To make an earnest or urgent request, as for help.
  2. To have recourse, as for corroboration; resort: I appeal to your sense of justice.
  3. Law To make or apply for an appeal.
  4. To be attractive or interesting: The idea didn't appeal to me.
v.   tr. Law
To transfer or apply to transfer (a case) to a higher court for rehearing.

[Middle English apel, from Old French, from apeler, to appeal, from Latin appellāre, to entreat; see pel-5 in Indo-European roots.]
ap·peal'a·bil'i·ty n., ap·peal'a·ble adj., ap·peal'er n.
ap·peal·ing     (ə-pē'lĭng)  Pronunciation Key 
adj.   Attractive; inviting: an appealing manner; an appealing idea.
ap·peal'ing·ly adv.
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appealing

adjective
1. 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" [ant: unappealing] 
2. (of characters in literature or drama) evoking empathic or sympathetic feelings; "the sympathetic characters in the play" [syn: sympathetic] [ant: unappealing] 

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Appealing

Ap*peal"ing\, a. That appeals; imploring. -- Ap*peal"ing*ly, adv. -- Ap*peal"ing*ness, n.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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