English > attractive: 3 senses > adjective 1| Meaning | pleasing to the eye / eye or mind especially through beauty or charm. |
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| Examples | - "a remarkably attractive young man"
- "an attractive personality"
- "attractive clothes"
- "a book with attractive illustrations"
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| Attribute of | attractiveness | Sexual allure |
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| Narrower | bewitching, captivating, enchanting, enthralling, entrancing, fascinating | capturing interest as if by a spell |
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| charismatic, magnetic | possessing an extraordinary ability to attract |
| cunning, cute | attractive especially by means of smallness or prettiness or quaintness |
| dinky | (British informal) pretty and neat |
| engaging, piquant | attracting or delighting |
| fetching, taking, winning | Very attractive |
| glossy, showy | superficially attractive and stylish |
| hypnotic, mesmeric, mesmerizing, spellbinding | attracting and holding interest as if by a spell |
| irresistible | overpoweringly attractive |
| personable | (of persons) pleasant in appearance and personality |
| photogenic | looking attractive in photographs |
| prepossessing | creating a favorable impression |
| winsome | charming in a childlike or naive way |
| See also | beautiful | delighting the senses or exciting intellectual or emotional admiration |
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| inviting | attractive and tempting |
| pleasing | Giving pleasure and satisfaction |
| seductive | tending to entice into a desired action or state |
| Opposite | unattractive | lacking beauty or charm |
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| Spanish | atractivo |
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| Catalan | atractiu |
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| Nouns | attractiveness | sexual allure |
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| Adverbs | attractively | in a beautiful manner |
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| Verbs | attract | be attractive to |
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