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attractive


adjective

  1. providing pleasure or delight, especially in appearance or manner; pleasing; charming; alluring: an attractive personality.
  2. arousing interest or engaging one’s thought, consideration, etc.: an attractive idea; an attractive price.
  3. having the quality of attracting.

adjective

  1. appealing to the senses or mind through beauty, form, character, etc
  2. arousing interestan attractive opportunity
  3. possessing the ability to draw or pullan attractive force
adj.

late 14c., “absorptive,” from Middle French attractif (14c.), from attract-, past participle stem of attrahere (see attract). Meaning “having the quality of drawing people’s eye or interest” is from 1580s; sense of “pleasing, alluring” is from c.1600. Related: Attractively; attractiveness.

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