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adjective

providing pleasure or delight, especially in appearance or manner; pleasing; charming; alluring: an attractive personality.

arousing interest or engaging one's thought, consideration, etc.: an attractive idea; an attractive price.

having the quality of attracting.

Origin:
1375–1425; late Middle English attractif (< Middle French ) < Late Latin attractīvus of a medicine with drawing power. See attract, -ive

Related forms

at·trac·tive·ly, adverb

at·trac·tive·ness, noun

su·per·at·trac·tive, adjective

su·per·at·trac·tive·ly, adverb

su·per·at·trac·tive·ness, noun

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un·at·trac·tive, adjective

un·at·trac·tive·ly, adverb

un·at·trac·tive·ness, noun

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The department offers an attractive teaching load and strong support for professional development.

They deemed the men wearing the deodorant more attractive.

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Numerous studies have shown that women are considered more feminine and attractive when their pupils are dilated.

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For the banks and their regulator, the wooing and winning of such attractive international partners is a triumph.

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They are usually enthralled by the big, attractive skeletons.

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Some mammals have an attractive solution for coping with long winters-sleep through them.

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Drug companies are notorious for hiring attractive women in sales positions.

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This, in turn, might make them seem less attractive to their next prospective employer.

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But the new members themselves are potentially attractive markets too.

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Equity markets have again reached a stage where valuations look attractive in historic terms.

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Many economists consider this an attractive alternative to higher top marginal income-tax rates.

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Australia is particularly attractive to foreign students at the moment.

One day an attractive young woman came into the store and began to order, what turned out to be, a two month supply of grub.

Blossoms are especially attractive to bees, butterflies.

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In theory, an exceptional new junior or senior colleague should be an attractive prospect to faculty members in any department.

The feminine males' objective is to appear stylish and attractive and enjoys the pursuit and.

The attractive illustrations featured prominent individuals who had been affected by the disease.

However, the low score images show that fat is not attractive.

The fans do too, which is what makes racing so attractive to advertisers and.

There are few things in life less attractive than tattoos.

In this environment, government jobs become even more attractive.

Standing water provides attractive breeding locales for the insects.

Using this method, researchers found that an attractive image is not more likely to be recognized.

It fuses a touchscreen and keyboard in one attractive package.

We have found some unusual and attractive shelf brackets that do not use unsightly standards for mounting.

For many high-school students, the idea of attending a two-year campus is about as attractive as a ban on text messaging.

But making bankruptcy more difficult has other, less attractive economic effects.

All redbuds provide fall color with first frost and are attractive in naturalized settings.

These factors make sea mines an attractive part of a defense program.

The approach is attractive because of some unattractive numbers.

Hopping on the train laden with suitcases and children may not be an attractive alternative.

Rushmore have made the cultural setting more attractive.

It's easy to see why the model has proven so attractive for so long.

The subjects were asked to choose the face that they found more attractive.

Environmentally, wood is attractive for several reasons.

Certainly the monetary payoff of summer teaching may be too attractive to turn down, especially in these times.

And, in addition to its high citric-acid content, lime juice has a second attractive feature: it literally grows on trees.

Controlled burning and pine plantings kept these areas attractive to the warblers.

Many types bloom over a long period, bearing flowers that are attractive though not always as showy as those of pelargoniums.

Missing out on that extra cash while its customers consume its precious bandwidth for free isn't attractive to carriers.

The work is attractive enough to lure young people in developing countries to decipher tests known as captchas.

But it is less attractive for those who live in the area.

It's an especially attractive option for parents, who have learned that children are easily bored with games.

The iPad may offer an even more attractive prospect: the chance to reset the downward spiral in e-book prices.

It is an attractive vision and many exciting new stations are taking advantage of web technology.

The more symmetrical a person's features are, the more likely he or she is to be perceived as attractive.

Also attractive to the military is depleted uranium's abundance.

Even without the bonus of delightful fruit, citrus would be popular landscape plants for their attractive form, glossy evergreen.

When his computer identifies an attractive time to buy or sell, it emits a horn blast.

The interior space has been divided into several attractive dining areas.

The new approach is extremely attractive for space applications where performance is often more important than cost.

Those extinctions might have left an attractive environmental niche for the dinosaurs.

Im not sure i would find a female attractive if she had wings and slept upside down from the ceiling.

Flowers age to tannish gold, remain attractive for a long time.

Icelanders make attractive subjects for geneticists because of the homogenous nature of the population.

Preston, an accomplished and attractive young lady, was found hanging in the attic of her parents' residence this morning.

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Shipping companies might find that attractive because a lighter ship means more payload and less fuel consumption.

In addition to whatever personal pleasure it gives you, being attractive also helps you earn more money.

Women with scarred torsos and chests are considered particularly sensual and attractive.

Symmetrical faces tend to be judged as more attractive than asymmetrical ones.

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With the auto industry in a tailspin, automakers are scrambling to make their vehicles as attractive as possible.

The systems could be packaged with in-car concierge systems, which may prove attractive to car shoppers.

So attractive is the business that foreigners seem to be queuing up to pay rich prices for fund managers.

Kirkness believes his cheaper approach provides an attractive alternative.

It is also usually far less attractive than the natural landscape it replaced.

And the vaccine business has high barriers to entry and, in recent years, attractive margins.

The branes exert attractive forces on one another and occasionally collide.

They aren't attractive out of bloom, have no real fall color.

Water whooshes through in an exciting and attractive way.

Washington's diverse terrain and vegetation is rendered through an attractive color palette and shaded relief.

As fuel gets more expensive these technologies will become more attractive.

Those in cultivation have showy clusters of tubular flowers attractive to hummingbirds.

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World English Dictionary

attractive (əˈtræktɪv)

—*adj*
1.	appealing to the senses or mind through beauty, form, character, etc
2.	arousing interest: an attractive opportunity
3.	possessing the ability to draw or pull: an attractive force

at'tractively

—*adv*

at'tractiveness

—n

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Word Origin & History

attractive

1530s, "absorptive," from Fr. attractif (14c.), from attract- (see attract). Meaning "having the quality of drawing people's eye or interest" is from 1580s; sense of "pleasing, alluring" is from c.1600.

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