Liberal Dictionary English Dictionary
adjective
- providing pleasure or delight, especially in appearance or manner; pleasing; charming; alluring: an attractive personality.
- arousing interest or engaging one’s thought, consideration, etc.: an attractive idea; an attractive price.
- having the quality of attracting.
adjective
- appealing to the senses or mind through beauty, form, character, etc
- arousing interestan attractive opportunity
- possessing the ability to draw or pullan attractive force
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.