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appeal - 20 thesaurus results
| Main Entry: | appeal |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | request for help |
| Synonyms: | address, application, bid, call, claim, demand, entreaty, invocation, overture, petition, plea, prayer, proposal, proposition, question, recourse, requisition, submission, suit, supplication, adjuration, imploration, importunity, solicitation |
| Antonyms: | denial, disclaimer, refusal, retraction, revocation, disavowal |
| Main Entry: | appeal |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | request |
| Synonyms: | address, adjure, advance, apply, ask, beg, beseech, bid, call, claim, contest, crave, demand, entreat, implore, importune, petition, plead, pray, propose, proposition, question, refer, require, solicit, strike, submit, sue, supplicate, urge, call upon, hit on, resort to |
| Antonyms: | deny, disclaim, recall, refuse, renounce, retract, revoke |
| Main Entry: | appeal |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | power to attract, interest |
| Synonyms: | allure, attraction, beauty, charm, fascination, attractiveness, charmingness, engagingness, glamor, interestingness, pleasingness, seductiveness |
| Antonyms: | ugliness |
| Main Entry: | appeal |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | attract, interest |
| Synonyms: | allure, beguile, captivate, charm, enchant, engage, entice, fascinate, intrigue, invite, please, tantalize, tempt, catch the eye |
| Antonyms: | disgust, turn off, turn away |
| Main Entry: | attraction |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | ability to draw attention; something that draws attention |
| Synonyms: | allure, appeal, bait, charm, come-on*, draw, enchantment, endearment, enticement, fascination, gravitation, inclination, inducement, interest, invitation, lure, magnetism, pull, seduction, temptation, tendency, allurement, attractiveness, captivation, chemistry, courting, drawing power, enthrallment, it, solicitation |
| Antonyms: | repulsion, revulsion |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | beseech |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | beg |
| Synonyms: | adjure, appeal, ask, crave, entreat, implore, importune, invoke, petition, plead, pray, solicit, sue, supplicate, call upon |
| Antonyms: | give, offer |
| Main Entry: | charisma |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | great personal charm |
| Synonyms: | allure, animal magnetism*, appeal, dazzle, fascination, flash, glamour, magnetism, pizzazz*, something*, witchcraft, drawing power, it, star quality, witchery |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | demand |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | question, request |
| Synonyms: | appeal, application, bid, bidding, call, call for, charge, claim, clamor, command, entreaty, imposition, inquiry, insistence, interest, interrogation, lien, necessity, need, occasion, order, petition, plea, prayer, pursuit, requirement, requisition, rush, sale, search, stipulation, suit, supplication, trade, ultimatum, use, vogue, want, arrogation, counterclaim, entreatment, exaction, impetration, imploration, importunity, solicitation |
| Antonyms: | grant, offer, reply |
| Main Entry: | eloquence |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | skillful way with words |
| Synonyms: | ability, appeal, articulation, delivery, diction, dramatic, expression, facility, fervor, flow, fluency, force, gift of gab*, loquacity, oration, oratory, passion, persuasiveness, poise, power, rhetoric, spirit, style, vigor, vivacity, wit, command of language, expressiveness, expressivity, forcefulness, grandiloquence, meaningfulness, mellifluousness, volubility, wittiness |
| Antonyms: | dullness, inarticulateness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | entreaty |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | plea |
| Synonyms: | appeal, application, imprecation, petition, prayer, request, suit, supplication, imploration |
| Antonyms: | answer, command, demand |
| Main Entry: | fascination |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | strong interest |
| Synonyms: | allure, appeal, attraction, bug*, charisma, charm, enchantment, glamour, hang-up*, lure, magic, magnetism, obsession, piquancy, power, pull*, sorcery, spell, thing*, trance, witchcraft, enthrallment, grabber, thing for, witchery |
| Antonyms: | boredom, disinterest |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | glamour |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | sophisticated style |
| Synonyms: | allure, animal magnetism, appeal, attraction, beauty, charisma, charm, color, enchantment, fascination, interest, magnetism, prestige, romance, allurement, bewitchment, ravishment, razzle-dazzle, star quality |
| Antonyms: | drab, dullness, ugliness, plainness |
| Main Entry: | glitz |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | showiness |
| Synonyms: | appeal, glamour, ostentation, flashiness, gaudiness, speciousness |
| Main Entry: | implore |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | beg |
| Synonyms: | appeal, beseech, conjure, crave, entreat, importune, plead, pray, solicit, supplicate, urge, go on bended knee |
| Antonyms: | answer |
| Main Entry: | importune |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | demand, insist |
| Synonyms: | appeal, ask, badger, beg, beseech, beset, besiege, con*, crave, egg on*, entreat, harass, hound*, implore, invoke, nag, persuade, pester, plague, plead, pray, press, sell, solicit, supplicate, urge, dun, goose*, work on |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | interest |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | hold the attention of |
| Synonyms: | affect, amuse, appeal, arouse, attract, concern, divert, engage, engross, entertain, enthrall, excite, fascinate, grab, hook, intrigue, involve, lure, move, perk up, pique, please, pull, snare, tantalize, tempt, titillate, touch, turn on, appeal to, be interesting to, sit up |
| Antonyms: | bore, bother, disenchant, disinterest |
| Main Entry: | invitation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | proposal; asking |
| Synonyms: | appeal, attraction, begging, bid, bidding, call, challenge, date, encouragement, enticement, feeler*, ground, hit, incitement, inducement, invite, lure, motive, offer, open door*, overture, paper, pass, petition, pressure, proffer, proposition, provocation, rain check, reason, request, suggestion, summons, supplication, temptation, urge, allurement, compliments, coquetry, prompting, solicitation |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | invocation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | prayer |
| Synonyms: | abracadabra*, appeal, calling, command, entreaty, hocus-pocus*, mumbo jumbo*, petition, summons, supplication, voodoo*, beseeching, conjuration, hoodoo, rune |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | litigate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | bring matter before court of law |
| Synonyms: | appeal, contest, dispute, prosecute, sue, drag into court, file suit, go to court, go to law, institute legal proceedings, press charges, see one in court, take the law on |
| Main Entry: | lure |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | bait |
| Synonyms: | ambush, appeal, attraction, bribe, call, camouflage, come-on*, con game*, decoy, delusion, draw, enticement, fake, gimmick, hook, illusion, incentive, inducement, invitation, pull, seduction, sitting duck*, snare, temptation, tout, trap, trick, allurement, carrot*, inveiglement, magnet, mousetrap, seducement, siren song, sweetener |
| Antonyms: | deterrent, warning |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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