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attrahent

UK/ˈætɹəhənt/

attrahent adjective: that attracts; drawing, attracting.

Adjective

attrahent (not comparable)

  1. That attracts; drawing, attracting.
    • The humours, which easily follow the attrahent medicament.1661, Robert Lovell, A Compleat History of Animals and Minerals, page 518

Noun

attrahent (plural attrahents)

  1. An attrahent agent; something that attracts.
    • The motion of steel to its attrahent.1665, Joseph Glanvill, Scepsis Scientifica, or Confest Ignorance the Way to Science (2nd ed. of The Vanity of Dogmatizing, 1661), chapter 15, page 127
    • Attrahents are the same with what we otherwise call drawers, ripeners, maturantia, etc.1786, Ephraim Chambers, “Rees”, in Cyclopædia; or, An Universal Dictionary of Arts and Sciences

attrahent meaning in Tamil and Bengali

attrahent in Tamil

கவரும் பொருள், கவரக்கூடிய, ஈர்க்கத்தக்க

attrahent in Bengali

আকর্ষণকারী, টানে এমন

Forms of attrahent

pluralattrahents

Origin of attrahent

From attrahent-, the stem of the Latin attrahēns (“drawing, pulling, or dragging to or toward with force”; “drawing”, “alluring”, “leading”, “bringing”, “moving”, “attracting”), the present active participle of attrahō (“to draw, pull, or drag to or toward with force”; “to draw, allure, lead, bring, move, attract”), on whose perfect passive participial stem the English verb attract is modelled.

Questions about attrahent

What does attrahent mean?
Attrahent means that attracts; drawing, attracting.
What is attrahent in Tamil?
Attrahent in Tamil is கவரும் பொருள், கவரக்கூடிய, ஈர்க்கத்தக்க. See Attrahent meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is attrahent?
Attrahent can be an adjective or a noun.
How do you pronounce attrahent?
Attrahent is pronounced /ˈætɹəhənt/ (UK).

Words near attrahent in the dictionary

  1. attractivity
  2. attractor
  3. attractors
  4. attracts
  5. attracts attention
  6. attrahent
  7. attrahents
  8. attrap
  9. attrapped
  10. attrapping
  11. attraps

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Adapted from Wiktionary: attrahent (page history and authors); attrahent (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); attrahent (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors). 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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