Found 4 items, similar to appealing.
English → Indonesian (Kamus Landak) Definition: appealing menarik
English → Indonesian (quick) Definition: appealing menarik
English → English (WordNet) Definition: appealing 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” [syn: sympathetic, likeable, likable] [ant: unsympathetic] 3: expressing earnest entreaty; “the appealing and frightened look worn by an injured dog”; “she holds out her hand for money, importunate, insistent”; “a pleading note in her voice” [syn: imploring, importunate, pleading]
English → English (gcide) Definition: Appealing Appealing \Ap*peal"ing\, a. That appeals; imploring. -- Ap*peal"ing*ly, adv. -- Ap*peal"ing*ness, n. [1913 Webster] 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]