appealing

Having appeal; attractive.

Adjective

  1. 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. - 1968, Carl Ruhen, The Key Club, Sydney: Scripts, page 12:
    • Some of the most beautiful and thus appealing physical theories, including quantum electrodynamics and quantum gravity, have been dogged for decades by infinities that erupt when theorists try to prod their calculations...
    • Those were all landmark moments to cherish. Just as appealing was the manner in which Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain and Milner cut swathes down either flank, albeit through flustered full-backs who had looked poorly...

Origin

By surface analysis, appeal + -ing.

Forms

more appealing most appealing

Antonyms

unappealing

Derived

appealingly appealingness nonappealing

Noun

  1. 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. - 1866, Heros von Borcke, Memoirs of the...

Forms

appealings

Verb

  1. present participle and gerund of appeal