appealing

US: /əˈpiɫɪŋ/
UK: /ɐpˈiːlɪŋ/


English Vietnamese dictionary


appealing /ə'pi:liɳ/
  • tính từ
    • van lơn, cầu khẩn
      • with an appealing look: với vẻ cầu khẩn
      • an appealing gaze: cái nhìn cầu khẩn
    • cảm động, thương tâm, làm mủi lòng
      • an appealing voice: giọng nói thương tâm
    • lôi cuốn, quyến rũ

Advanced English dictionary


+ adjective
1 attractive or interesting: Spending the holidays in Britain wasn't a prospect that I found particularly appealing. + Brightly coloured packaging made the pens especially appealing to children.
Antonym: UNAPPEALING
2 showing that you want people to help you or to show you pity or sympathy: 'Would you really help?' he said with an appealing look.
appealingly adverb: The dog looked up at her appealingly.

Thesaurus dictionary


v.
1 entreat, supplicate, solicit, plead, petition, apply, sue; beseech, beg, implore, pray:
She appealed to the king to release her son from the dungeon.
2 attract, be attractive to, allure, please; invite, tempt, beguile, fascinate, interest:
He seems to appeal to older women.
n.
3 application, suit; entreaty, call, request, supplication, solicitation, petition, plea; prayer:
Her appeal to the court has been dismissed. I don't know if God heard our appeal.
4 attraction, lure, allurement, charm, fascination:
It is not hard to see why his type would have some appeal.

Collocation dictionary


VERBS

be, look, seem, sound | make sth
The large salary made their offer even more appealing to him.
| find sth
I find his manner very appealing.

ADV.

enormously, extremely, very | quite, rather | immediately

PREP.

to
These toys are not immediately appealing to children.


Concise English dictionary


-lɪŋ
adj.
+able to attract interest or draw favorable attention
+(of characters in literature or drama) evoking empathic or sympathetic feelings
+expressing earnest entreaty

appeals|appealed|appealingə'piːl
noun
+earnest or urgent request
+attractiveness that interests or pleases or stimulates
+(law) a legal proceeding in which the appellant resorts to a higher court for the purpose of obtaining a review of a lower court decision and a reversal of the lower court's judgment or the granting of a new trial
+request for a sum of money
verb
+take a court case to a higher court for review
+request earnestly (something from somebody); ask for aid or protection
+be attractive to
+challenge (a decision)
+cite as an authority; resort to