appealing
adjective
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
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- core relation
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- substance, domain or see-also
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Senses
Sense 1 adjective
able to attract interest or draw favorable attention
He added an appealing and memorable figure to popular American mythology
Related & opposite
- unappealing antonym
- charm derivation
- attention-getting similar to
- attractive similar to
Sense 2 adjective
(of characters in literature or drama) evoking empathic or sympathetic feelings
the sympathetic characters in the play
Related & opposite
- unappealing antonym
- charm derivation
- like derivation
- drama domain topic
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | antonym | Related & opposite | unappealing |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | charm |
| 1 | similar to | Related & opposite | attention-getting |
| 1 | similar to | Related & opposite | attractive |
| 2 | antonym | Related & opposite | unappealing |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | charm |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | like |
| 2 | domain topic | Related & opposite | drama |