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Meaning of appealing

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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  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}, {appealing}, {likeable},
         {likable}] [ant: {unappealing}, {unlikable}, {unlikeable},
         {unsympathetic}]

Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2010.

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