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   attractive

   /əˈtraktɪv/

   adjective

   • 1. pleasing or appealing to the senses: "an attractive village"
   • ▪ (of a person) appealing to look at; sexually alluring: "a stunningly attractive, charismatic man" Similar good-lookingnice-lookingbeautifulprettyas pretty as a picturehandsomelovelystunningstrikingarrestinggorgeousprepossessingwinningfetchingcaptivatingbewitchingbeguilingengagingcharmingcharismaticenchantingappealingdelightfulirresistiblesexysexually attractivesexualseductivealluringtantalizingravishingdesirablesultrysensuoussensualeroticarousinglusciouslushnubilebonnyinformal:fanciablebeddabletastyhotknockoutdrop-dead gorgeousout of this worldeasy on the eyecome-hithercome-to-bedfitsmashingcutefoxybootyliciouson fleekspunkyliterary:beauteousdated:takingwell favouredarchaic:comelyfairrare:sightlypulchritudinousOpposite unattractiveugly
   • ▪ having qualities or features which arouse interest: "the site is close to other prestige schemes which should make it attractive to developers" Similar appealingagreeablepleasinginvitingtemptinginterestingfascinatingirresistibleOpposite unattractiveuninviting
   • ▪ relating to attraction between physical objects: "the attractive force between the magnets and the metal plate"

   Word Origin late Middle English (in the sense ‘absorbent’): from French attractif, -ive, from late Latin attractivus, from the verb attrahere (see attract).

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