un appealing
lɪŋ adjective
evoking or attracting interest, desire, curiosity, sympathy, or the like; attractive.
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| —adj | |
| attractive or pleasing | |
| appealingly | |
| —adv | |
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Un appealing
is always a great word to know.
So is ninnyhammer. Does it mean:
| an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle. |
| a fool or simpleton; ninny. |
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Word Origin & History
appealing
mid-15c., "action of petitioning a higher court or authority," from appeal (q.v.). By 1890s this had taken on as well a sense of "attractive.
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