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'

  2. (of characters in literature or drama) evoking empathic or sympathetic feelings; the sympathetic characters in the play

    [ Syn: sympathetic , likeable , likable ]

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