See appealing on Wiktionary
{
"antonyms": [
{
"word": "unappealing"
}
],
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "appeal",
"3": "-ing"
},
"expansion": "By surface analysis, appeal + -ing",
"name": "surf"
}
],
"etymology_text": "By surface analysis, appeal + -ing.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "more appealing",
"tags": [
"comparative"
]
},
{
"form": "most appealing",
"tags": [
"superlative"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "appealing (comparative more appealing, superlative most appealing)",
"name": "en-adj"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "adj",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"_dis": "56 22 22",
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [
"Entries with incorrect language header",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "53 24 23",
"kind": "other",
"name": "English terms suffixed with -ing",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "63 21 17",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Entries with translation boxes",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "64 18 18",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with 1 entry",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "79 11 10",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "66 19 15",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Dutch translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "74 14 12",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Esperanto translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "65 20 16",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with French translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "74 14 12",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with German translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "66 17 17",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Irish translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "74 14 12",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Italian translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "73 13 14",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Maori translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "74 14 12",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Russian translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "73 13 14",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Ukrainian translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "47 24 28",
"kind": "topical",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Appearance",
"orig": "en:Appearance",
"parents": [
"Perception",
"Body",
"All topics",
"Fundamental"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"derived": [
{
"word": "appealingly"
},
{
"word": "appealingness"
},
{
"word": "nonappealing"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1968, Carl Ruhen, The Key Club, Sydney: Scripts, page 12:",
"text": "Her housecoat had fallen open. She was wearing only panties and bra, which did nothing to make her scrawny, wrinkled body appealing.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2012 January 20, Michael Riordan, “Tackling Infinity”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 1, archived from the original on 2013-04-30, page 86:",
"text": "Some of the most beautiful and thus appealing physical theories, including quantum electrodynamics and quantum gravity, have been dogged for decades by infinities that erupt when theorists try to prod their calculations into new domains. Getting rid of these nagging infinities has probably occupied far more effort than was spent in originating the theories.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2012 September 7, Dominic Fifield, “England start World Cup campaign with five-goal romp against Moldova”, in The Guardian:",
"text": "Those were all landmark moments to cherish. Just as appealing was the manner in which Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain and Milner cut swathes down either flank, albeit through flustered full-backs who had looked poorly positioned and horribly jittery from the start.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Having appeal; attractive."
],
"id": "en-appealing-en-adj-2GlvjSI8",
"links": [
[
"appeal",
"appeal"
],
[
"attractive",
"attractive"
]
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "Having appeal; attractive",
"word": "aantrekkelijk"
},
{
"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "Having appeal; attractive",
"word": "alloga"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "Having appeal; attractive",
"word": "attrayant"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "Having appeal; attractive",
"word": "ansprechend"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "Having appeal; attractive",
"word": "zugkräftig"
},
{
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "Having appeal; attractive",
"word": "tarraingteach"
},
{
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "Having appeal; attractive",
"word": "taitneamhach"
},
{
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "Having appeal; attractive",
"word": "mealltach"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "Having appeal; attractive",
"word": "suggestivo"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "Having appeal; attractive",
"word": "gradevole"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "Having appeal; attractive",
"word": "attraente"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "Having appeal; attractive",
"word": "rerehua"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "Having appeal; attractive",
"word": "ātanga"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "Having appeal; attractive",
"word": "turipū"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "privlekatelʹnyj",
"sense": "Having appeal; attractive",
"word": "привлекательный"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "pryváblyvyj",
"sense": "Having appeal; attractive",
"word": "прива́бливий"
}
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/əˈpiː.lɪŋ/",
"tags": [
"UK"
]
},
{
"audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-appealing.wav",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/e/ec/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-appealing.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-appealing.wav.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/e/ec/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-appealing.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-appealing.wav.ogg"
},
{
"ipa": "/ʌˈpi.əl.ɪŋ/",
"tags": [
"US"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/əˈpi.lɪŋ/",
"tags": [
"US"
]
},
{
"rhymes": "-iːlɪŋ"
}
],
"word": "appealing"
}
{
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "appeal",
"3": "-ing"
},
"expansion": "By surface analysis, appeal + -ing",
"name": "surf"
}
],
"etymology_text": "By surface analysis, appeal + -ing.",
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "verb form"
},
"expansion": "appealing",
"name": "head"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"form_of": [
{
"word": "appeal"
}
],
"glosses": [
"present participle and gerund of appeal"
],
"id": "en-appealing-en-verb-J6fFDrYK",
"links": [
[
"appeal",
"appeal#English"
]
],
"tags": [
"form-of",
"gerund",
"participle",
"present"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/əˈpiː.lɪŋ/",
"tags": [
"UK"
]
},
{
"audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-appealing.wav",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/e/ec/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-appealing.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-appealing.wav.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/e/ec/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-appealing.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-appealing.wav.ogg"
},
{
"ipa": "/ʌˈpi.əl.ɪŋ/",
"tags": [
"US"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/əˈpi.lɪŋ/",
"tags": [
"US"
]
},
{
"rhymes": "-iːlɪŋ"
}
],
"word": "appealing"
}
{
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "appeal",
"3": "-ing"
},
"expansion": "By surface analysis, appeal + -ing",
"name": "surf"
}
],
"etymology_text": "By surface analysis, appeal + -ing.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "appealings",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "appealing (plural appealings)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1866, Heros von Borcke, Memoirs of the Confederate War for independence:",
"text": "The fair creature abandoned her position, and in the midst of her bitter tears and pathetic appealings, which my sense of duty alone enabled me to resist, I bore my prisoner off.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"The act of making an appeal."
],
"id": "en-appealing-en-noun-YtyK3tka"
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/əˈpiː.lɪŋ/",
"tags": [
"UK"
]
},
{
"audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-appealing.wav",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/e/ec/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-appealing.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-appealing.wav.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/e/ec/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-appealing.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-appealing.wav.ogg"
},
{
"ipa": "/ʌˈpi.əl.ɪŋ/",
"tags": [
"US"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/əˈpi.lɪŋ/",
"tags": [
"US"
]
},
{
"rhymes": "-iːlɪŋ"
}
],
"word": "appealing"
}
{
"antonyms": [
{
"word": "unappealing"
}
],
"categories": [
"English adjectives",
"English countable nouns",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English lemmas",
"English non-lemma forms",
"English nouns",
"English terms suffixed with -ing",
"English verb forms",
"English verbal nouns",
"Entries with translation boxes",
"Pages with 1 entry",
"Pages with entries",
"Rhymes:English/iːlɪŋ",
"Rhymes:English/iːlɪŋ/3 syllables",
"Terms with Dutch translations",
"Terms with Esperanto translations",
"Terms with French translations",
"Terms with German translations",
"Terms with Irish translations",
"Terms with Italian translations",
"Terms with Maori translations",
"Terms with Russian translations",
"Terms with Ukrainian translations",
"en:Appearance"
],
"derived": [
{
"word": "appealingly"
},
{
"word": "appealingness"
},
{
"word": "nonappealing"
}
],
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "appeal",
"3": "-ing"
},
"expansion": "By surface analysis, appeal + -ing",
"name": "surf"
}
],
"etymology_text": "By surface analysis, appeal + -ing.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "more appealing",
"tags": [
"comparative"
]
},
{
"form": "most appealing",
"tags": [
"superlative"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "appealing (comparative more appealing, superlative most appealing)",
"name": "en-adj"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "adj",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1968, Carl Ruhen, The Key Club, Sydney: Scripts, page 12:",
"text": "Her housecoat had fallen open. She was wearing only panties and bra, which did nothing to make her scrawny, wrinkled body appealing.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2012 January 20, Michael Riordan, “Tackling Infinity”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 1, archived from the original on 2013-04-30, page 86:",
"text": "Some of the most beautiful and thus appealing physical theories, including quantum electrodynamics and quantum gravity, have been dogged for decades by infinities that erupt when theorists try to prod their calculations into new domains. Getting rid of these nagging infinities has probably occupied far more effort than was spent in originating the theories.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2012 September 7, Dominic Fifield, “England start World Cup campaign with five-goal romp against Moldova”, in The Guardian:",
"text": "Those were all landmark moments to cherish. Just as appealing was the manner in which Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain and Milner cut swathes down either flank, albeit through flustered full-backs who had looked poorly positioned and horribly jittery from the start.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Having appeal; attractive."
],
"links": [
[
"appeal",
"appeal"
],
[
"attractive",
"attractive"
]
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/əˈpiː.lɪŋ/",
"tags": [
"UK"
]
},
{
"audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-appealing.wav",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/e/ec/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-appealing.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-appealing.wav.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/e/ec/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-appealing.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-appealing.wav.ogg"
},
{
"ipa": "/ʌˈpi.əl.ɪŋ/",
"tags": [
"US"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/əˈpi.lɪŋ/",
"tags": [
"US"
]
},
{
"rhymes": "-iːlɪŋ"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "Having appeal; attractive",
"word": "aantrekkelijk"
},
{
"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "Having appeal; attractive",
"word": "alloga"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "Having appeal; attractive",
"word": "attrayant"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "Having appeal; attractive",
"word": "ansprechend"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "Having appeal; attractive",
"word": "zugkräftig"
},
{
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "Having appeal; attractive",
"word": "tarraingteach"
},
{
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "Having appeal; attractive",
"word": "taitneamhach"
},
{
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "Having appeal; attractive",
"word": "mealltach"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "Having appeal; attractive",
"word": "suggestivo"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "Having appeal; attractive",
"word": "gradevole"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "Having appeal; attractive",
"word": "attraente"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "Having appeal; attractive",
"word": "rerehua"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "Having appeal; attractive",
"word": "ātanga"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "Having appeal; attractive",
"word": "turipū"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "privlekatelʹnyj",
"sense": "Having appeal; attractive",
"word": "привлекательный"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "pryváblyvyj",
"sense": "Having appeal; attractive",
"word": "прива́бливий"
}
],
"word": "appealing"
}
{
"categories": [
"English adjectives",
"English countable nouns",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English lemmas",
"English non-lemma forms",
"English nouns",
"English terms suffixed with -ing",
"English verb forms",
"English verbal nouns",
"Entries with translation boxes",
"Pages with 1 entry",
"Pages with entries",
"Rhymes:English/iːlɪŋ",
"Rhymes:English/iːlɪŋ/3 syllables",
"Terms with Dutch translations",
"Terms with Esperanto translations",
"Terms with French translations",
"Terms with German translations",
"Terms with Irish translations",
"Terms with Italian translations",
"Terms with Maori translations",
"Terms with Russian translations",
"Terms with Ukrainian translations",
"en:Appearance"
],
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "appeal",
"3": "-ing"
},
"expansion": "By surface analysis, appeal + -ing",
"name": "surf"
}
],
"etymology_text": "By surface analysis, appeal + -ing.",
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "verb form"
},
"expansion": "appealing",
"name": "head"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"form_of": [
{
"word": "appeal"
}
],
"glosses": [
"present participle and gerund of appeal"
],
"links": [
[
"appeal",
"appeal#English"
]
],
"tags": [
"form-of",
"gerund",
"participle",
"present"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/əˈpiː.lɪŋ/",
"tags": [
"UK"
]
},
{
"audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-appealing.wav",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/e/ec/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-appealing.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-appealing.wav.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/e/ec/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-appealing.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-appealing.wav.ogg"
},
{
"ipa": "/ʌˈpi.əl.ɪŋ/",
"tags": [
"US"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/əˈpi.lɪŋ/",
"tags": [
"US"
]
},
{
"rhymes": "-iːlɪŋ"
}
],
"word": "appealing"
}
{
"categories": [
"English adjectives",
"English countable nouns",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English lemmas",
"English non-lemma forms",
"English nouns",
"English terms suffixed with -ing",
"English verb forms",
"English verbal nouns",
"Entries with translation boxes",
"Pages with 1 entry",
"Pages with entries",
"Rhymes:English/iːlɪŋ",
"Rhymes:English/iːlɪŋ/3 syllables",
"Terms with Dutch translations",
"Terms with Esperanto translations",
"Terms with French translations",
"Terms with German translations",
"Terms with Irish translations",
"Terms with Italian translations",
"Terms with Maori translations",
"Terms with Russian translations",
"Terms with Ukrainian translations",
"en:Appearance"
],
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "appeal",
"3": "-ing"
},
"expansion": "By surface analysis, appeal + -ing",
"name": "surf"
}
],
"etymology_text": "By surface analysis, appeal + -ing.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "appealings",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "appealing (plural appealings)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1866, Heros von Borcke, Memoirs of the Confederate War for independence:",
"text": "The fair creature abandoned her position, and in the midst of her bitter tears and pathetic appealings, which my sense of duty alone enabled me to resist, I bore my prisoner off.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"The act of making an appeal."
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/əˈpiː.lɪŋ/",
"tags": [
"UK"
]
},
{
"audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-appealing.wav",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/e/ec/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-appealing.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-appealing.wav.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/e/ec/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-appealing.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-appealing.wav.ogg"
},
{
"ipa": "/ʌˈpi.əl.ɪŋ/",
"tags": [
"US"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/əˈpi.lɪŋ/",
"tags": [
"US"
]
},
{
"rhymes": "-iːlɪŋ"
}
],
"word": "appealing"
}
Download raw JSONL data for appealing meaning in All languages combined (8.7kB)
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-12-21 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-12-04 using wiktextract (d8cb2f3 and 4e554ae). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.