ATTRACTIVE


Meaning of ATTRACTIVE in English

adjective

1.

having the power to attract

an area attractive to wildlife

Synonyms: alluring, appealing, attracting, bewitching, captivating, charming, drawing, enchanting, engaging, fascinating, glamorous, magnetic, mesmeric, prepossessing, seductive, siren

Related Word: beautiful, bonny, comely, fair, lovely, pretty; Circean, enticing, fetching, luring, tempting; interesting, taking, winning; beckoning, come-hither, inviting, provocative, tantalizing, teasing; likable, simpatico

Contrasted words: abhorrent, distasteful, obnoxious, repugnant; loathsome, offensive, repulsive, revolting; antipathetic, unsympathetic

Antonyms: repellent, repelling; forbidding

2.

Synonyms: beautiful , beauteous, ||bonny, comely, fair, good-looking, handsome, lovely, pretty, pulchritudinous

Related Word: agreeable, goodly, ||likely, pleasing, sightly

Contrasted words: homely, ill-favored, plain, uncomely, unprepossessing

Antonyms: unattractive

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