sex appeal
sex appeal noun: sexual attractiveness.
Noun
sex appeal (uncountable)
- Sexual attractiveness.
- He may be as thick as a plank, but he sure has some sex appeal.
- But when she goes on to remark that “it is the height of folly to say that woman, who has been taught by the uncounted ages that her strongest hold on man is because of her sex, can throw off or disregard the knowledge that her sex appeal is the strongest weapon she has” then I am appalled at the...1913 May 15, Elizabeth Newport Hepburn, quoting Josephine Jewell Dodge, “A Question Not of Sex Appeal; But of Prevailing Mode.”, in The New York Times, →ISSN
sex appeal meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Malayalam
sex appeal in Hindi
- sexual attractiveness
- यौनाकर्षण yaunākarṣaṇ
sex appeal in Tamil
- பாலியல் கவர்ச்சி, பாலுணர்வுக் கவர்ச்சி, பாலுணர்வுத் தூண்டல், உடல் கவர்ச்சி, உடற்கவர்ச்சி
sex appeal in Urdu
- جنسی کشش
sex appeal in Malayalam
- sexual attractive-ness, sexiness, seductiveness
- കാമോദ്ദീപകമായ ആകർഷണശക്തി, ലെെംഗികാകർഷണം, ലെെംഗികാകർഷണീയത, ലെെംഗികാകർഷകത്വം, ലെെംഗികത്വം, ലെെംഗികത
More languagesFewer languages
- sex appeal in Tagalog
- sariing gayuma
- sex appeal in Arabic
- اِنْجِذَاب جِنْسِيّ injiḏāb jinsiyy, جَاذِبِيَّة جِنْسِيَّة jāḏibiyya jinsiyya
- sex appeal in Vietnamese
- hấp dẫn tình dục
Examples of sex appeal in a sentence
- "I can't talk to you when you're in a daze of admiration over your own sex appeal."1950, Norman Lindsay, Dust or Polish?, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 3:
- Samara: She impresses with sophistication and sex appeal.2010, BioWare, Mass Effect 2 (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: Omega (Samara: The Ardat-Yakshi):
Words formed from sex appeal
Questions about sex appeal
- What does sex appeal mean?
- Sex appeal means sexual attractiveness.
- What is sex appeal in Hindi?
- Sex appeal in Hindi is यौनाकर्षण (yaunākarṣaṇ). See Sex appeal meaning in Hindi.
- How do you use sex appeal in a sentence?
- "I can't talk to you when you're in a daze of admiration over your own sex appeal."
- What part of speech is sex appeal?
- Sex appeal is a noun.
Words near sex appeal in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: sex appeal (page history and authors); sex appeal (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); sex appeal (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); sex appeal (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset 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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