appealing

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   able to attract interest or draw favorable attention

   The author added an appealing and memorable figure to popular American mythology.

2. 2
   adj

   Having appeal; attractive.

   Her housecoat had fallen open. She was wearing only panties and bra, which did nothing to make her scrawny, wrinkled body appealing.

3. 3
   noun

   The act of making an appeal.

   The fair creature abandoned her position, and in the midst of her bitter tears and pathetic appealings, which my sense of duty alone enabled me to resist, I bore my prisoner off.

4. 4
   adj

   (of characters in literature or drama) evoking empathic or sympathetic feelings

5. 5
   verb

   present participle and gerund of appeal

Etymology

By surface analysis, appeal + -ing.