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appealing 音標拼音: [əp'ilɪŋ] a. 引起興趣的,動人的,懇求的 引起興趣的,動人的,懇求的 appealing adj 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" [ synonym: { sympathetic}, { appealing}, { likeable}, { likable}] [ ant: { unappealing}, { unlikable}, { unlikeable}, { unsympathetic}] Appeal \ Ap* peal"\, v. t. [ imp. & p. p. { Appealed}; p. pr. & vb. n. { Appealing}.] [ OE. appelen, apelen, to appeal, accuse, OF. appeler, fr. L. appellare to approach, address, invoke, summon, call, name; akin to appellere to drive to; ad pellere to drive. See { Pulse}, and cf. { Peal}.] 1. ( Law) ( a) To make application for the removal of ( a cause) from an inferior to a superior judge or court for a rehearing or review on account of alleged injustice or illegality in the trial below. We say, the cause was appealed from an inferior court. ( b) To charge with a crime; to accuse; to institute a private criminal prosecution against for some heinous crime; as, to appeal a person of felony. [ 1913 Webster] 2. To summon; to challenge. [ Archaic] [ 1913 Webster] Man to man will I appeal the Norman to the lists. -- Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster] 3. To invoke. [ Obs.] -- Milton. [ 1913 Webster]
Appealing \ Ap* peal" ing\, a. That appeals; imploring. -- { Ap* peal" ing* ly}, adv. -- { Ap* peal" ing* ness}, n. [ 1913 Webster] 114 Moby Thesaurus words for " appealing": achingly sweet, adjuratory, agreeable, agreeable- sounding, alluring, appetizing, ariose, arioso, attracting, attractive, begging, beguiling, beseeching, bewitching, blandishing, cajoling, canorous, cantabile, captivating, catching, catchy, charismatic, charming, coaxing, come- hither, coquettish, delightful, dulcet, enchanting, engaging, enravishing, enthralling, enticing, entrancing, entreating, euphonic, euphonious, euphonous, exciting, exotic, exquisite, fascinating, fetching, fine- toned, flirtatious, glamorous, golden, golden- tongued, golden- voiced, heart- robbing, honeyed, hypnotic, imploring, interesting, intriguing, inviting, irresistible, lovely, luxurious, melic, mellifluent, mellifluous, mellisonant, mellow, melodic, melodious, mesmeric, mouth- watering, music- flowing, music- like, musical, piquant, pleading, pleasant, pleasant- sounding, precative, precatory, prepossessing, provocative, provoquant, ravishing, rich, seducing, seductive, sensuous, silver- toned, silver- tongued, silver- voiced, silvery, singable, siren, sirenic, songful, songlike, sonorous, spellbinding, spellful, sweet, sweet- flowing, sweet- sounding, taking, tantalizing, teasing, tempting, thrilling, tickling, titillating, titillative, tunable, tuneful, voluptuous, winning, winsome, witching
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