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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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