appealing
/əˈpiː.lɪŋ/US/ʌˈpi.əl.ɪŋ/
appealing adjective: having appeal; attractive. Also the present participle and gerund of appeal.
Adjective
appealing (comparative more appealing, superlative most appealing)
- 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 into new domains. Getting rid of these nagging infinities has probably occupied...2012 January, Michael Riordan, “Tackling Infinity”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 1, archived from the original on 30 Apr 2013, page 86
Noun
appealing (plural appealings)
- 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 Confederate War for independence
Also used as
appealing is also the present participle and gerund of appeal.
appealing meaning in Hindi, Telugu and Nepali
appealing in Hindi
- Having appeal; attractive
- रुचिकर rucikar, आकर्षक ākarṣak
appealing in Telugu
- అప్పీల్ చేయడం
appealing in Nepali
- अपील गर्दै
Examples of appealing in a sentence
- Against a backdrop of falling interest rates, the new savings account is looking less appealing.
- His writing is appealing, but a bit rough around the edges.
- Reality TV really is appealing to the lowest common denominator in audiences.
Antonyms of appealing
Forms of appealing
| Adjective | |
|---|---|
| comparative | more appealing |
| superlative | most appealing |
| Noun | |
| plural | appealings |
Origin of appealing
By surface analysis, appeal + -ing.
Words formed from appealing
Phrases with appealing
Words that rhyme with appealing
- ceiling
- feeling
- healing
- concealing
- dealing
- Eling
- glass ceiling
- peeling
- revealing
- shieling
- stealing
- wheeling
8 more rhymesFewer rhymes
Questions about appealing
- What does appealing mean?
- Appealing means having appeal; attractive.
- What is appealing in Hindi?
- Appealing in Hindi is रुचिकर (rucikar), आकर्षक (ākarṣak). See Appealing meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is appealing?
- Appealing can be an adjective or a noun.
- How do you pronounce appealing?
- Appealing is pronounced /əˈpiː.lɪŋ/ (UK).
Words near appealing in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: appealing (page history and authors); appealing (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); appealing (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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