attractive

attractive
    adj 1: pleasing to the eye or mind especially through beauty or
           charm; "a remarkably attractive young man"; "an
           attractive personality"; "attractive clothes"; "a book
           with attractive illustrations" [ant: {unattractive}]
    2: having power to arouse interest; "an attractive opportunity";
       "the job is attractive because of the pay"
    3: having the properties of a magnet; the ability to draw or
       pull; "an attractive force"; [ant: {repulsive(a)}]
    

Attractive \At*tract"ive\, a. [Cf. F. attractif.]
   1. Having the power or quality of attracting or drawing; as,
      the attractive force of bodies. --Sir I. Newton.
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   2. Attracting or drawing by moral influence or pleasurable
      emotion; alluring; inviting; pleasing. "Attractive
      graces." --Milton. "Attractive eyes." --Thackeray.
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            Flowers of a livid yellow, or fleshy color, are most
            attractive to flies.                  --Lubbock.
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      {At*tract"ive*ness}, n.
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Attractive \At*tract"ive\, n.
   That which attracts or draws; an attraction; an allurement.
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         Speaks nothing but attractives and invitation. --South.
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113 Moby Thesaurus words for "attractive":
      absorbing, acceptable, adductive, adorable, aesthetic,
      aesthetically appealing, agreeable, alluring, appealing,
      appetizing, arresting, attracting, attrahent, beauteous, beautiful,
      beguiling, bewitching, blandishing, bonny, cajoling, captivating,
      catching, charismatic, charming, coaxing, come-hither, comely,
      consuming, coquettish, delightful, desirable, dragging, drawing,
      elegant, enchanting, endowed with beauty, engaging, engrossing,
      enravishing, enthralling, enticing, entrancing, enviable, exciting,
      exotic, exquisite, eye-filling, fair, fascinating, fetching, fine,
      flirtatious, flowerlike, glamorous, good-looking, graceful,
      gracile, gripping, handsome, heart-robbing, heavy, holding,
      hypnotic, interesting, intriguing, inviting, irresistible, likable,
      lovable, lovely, luring, luxurious, magnetic, magnetized, mesmeric,
      mesmerizing, mouth-watering, obsessing, obsessive, piquant,
      pleasing, prepossessing, pretty, provocative, provoquant,
      pulchritudinous, pulling, ravishing, seducing, seductive, sensuous,
      siren, sirenic, spellbinding, spellful, sympathetic, taking,
      tantalizing, teasing, tempting, thrilling, tickling, titillating,
      titillative, to be desired, toothsome, tugging, unobjectionable,
      voluptuous, winning, winsome, witching, worth having