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Attractive

adjective

Pleasing to the eye or mind especially through beauty or charm. "An attractive personality" , "Attractive clothes" , "A book with attractive illustrations"

Having power to arouse interest. "The job is attractive because of the pay"

Having the properties of a magnet; the ability to draw or pull.

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... that was among the many winning traits of Saumarez's symmetrical and attractive character impelled him to copious letter-writing. Hence we have a record of this pursuit of the French fleet, with almost daily entries; an inside picture, reflecting the hopes, fears, and perplexities of the squadron. Bonaparte's ...

— Types of Naval Officers - Drawn from the History of the British Navy • A. T. Mahan

... case the provosts, or some of them, shall take such as desire audience into one of the withdrawing-rooms. And the provosts are to give their minds that this academy be so governed, adorned, and preserved, as may be most attractive to men of parts and good affections to the commonwealth, for ...

— The Commonwealth of Oceana • James Harrington

... it was for me to believe this of Jim Hosley, that great, lumbering fellow, handsome and manly, the personification of comfortable, attractive ...

— Cupid's Middleman • Edward B. Lent

... adorned by a black-walnut-and-gold-framed mirror, and innumerable vases of the ornate ninety-eight-cents order. The centerpiece held a large and extremely soiled spray of artificial wistaria. The end of the room was rendered attractive by a tent-like cozy-corner built of savage weapons and Oriental cotton stuffs long ago become stringy and almost leprous in hue. The proprietor of the bankrupt boarding-house had been "artistic." But Mrs. Bowse was ...

— T. Tembarom • Frances Hodgson Burnett

... work between the two lads, which came late indeed to the surface, but had modified and magnified their dissensions from the first. To an idle, shallow, easy-going customer like Frank, the smell of a mystery was attractive. It gave his mind something to play with, like a new toy to a child; and it took him on the weak side, for like many young men coming to the Bar, and before they had been tried and found wanting, he flattered himself he was ...

— Weir of Hermiston • Robert Louis Stevenson

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