Attractive

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Attractive \At*tract"ive\, a. [Cf. F. attractif.]
     1. Having the power or quality of attracting or drawing; as,
        the attractive force of bodies. --Sir I. Newton.
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     2. Attracting or drawing by moral influence or pleasurable


        emotion; alluring; inviting; pleasing. "Attractive
        graces." --Milton. "Attractive eyes." --Thackeray.
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              Flowers of a livid yellow, or fleshy color, are most
              attractive to flies.                  --Lubbock.
        [1913 Webster] -- {At*tract"ive*ly}, adv. --
        {At*tract"ive*ness}, n.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Attractive \At*tract"ive\, n.
     That which attracts or draws; an attraction; an allurement.
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           Speaks nothing but attractives and invitation. --South.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  attractive
       adj 1: pleasing to the eye or mind especially through beauty or
              charm; "a remarkably attractive young man"; "an
              attractive personality"; "attractive clothes"; "a book
              with attractive illustrations" [ant: {unattractive}]
       2: having power to arouse interest; "an attractive
          opportunity"; "the job is attractive because of the pay"
       3: having the properties of a magnet; the ability to draw or
          pull; "an attractive force"; "the knife hung on a magnetic
          board" [syn: {attractive(a)}, {magnetic}] [ant: {repulsive(a)}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  113 Moby Thesaurus words for "attractive":
     absorbing, acceptable, adductive, adorable, aesthetic,
     aesthetically appealing, agreeable, alluring, appealing,
     appetizing, arresting, attracting, attrahent, beauteous, beautiful,
     beguiling, bewitching, blandishing, bonny, cajoling, captivating,
     catching, charismatic, charming, coaxing, come-hither, comely,
     consuming, coquettish, delightful, desirable, dragging, drawing,
     elegant, enchanting, endowed with beauty, engaging, engrossing,
     enravishing, enthralling, enticing, entrancing, enviable, exciting,
     exotic, exquisite, eye-filling, fair, fascinating, fetching, fine,
     flirtatious, flowerlike, glamorous, good-looking, graceful,
     gracile, gripping, handsome, heart-robbing, heavy, holding,
     hypnotic, interesting, intriguing, inviting, irresistible, likable,
     lovable, lovely, luring, luxurious, magnetic, magnetized, mesmeric,
     mesmerizing, mouth-watering, obsessing, obsessive, piquant,
     pleasing, prepossessing, pretty, provocative, provoquant,
     pulchritudinous, pulling, ravishing, seducing, seductive, sensuous,
     siren, sirenic, spellbinding, spellful, sympathetic, taking,
     tantalizing, teasing, tempting, thrilling, tickling, titillating,
     titillative, to be desired, toothsome, tugging, unobjectionable,
     voluptuous, winning, winsome, witching, worth having