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appealing

adj
/əˈpiː.lɪŋ/UK/ʌˈpi.əl.ɪŋ/US

Etymology

By surface analysis, appeal + -ing.

Definitions

  1. Having appeal

    Having appeal; attractive.

    • Her housecoat had fallen open. She was wearing only panties and bra, which did nothing to make her scrawny, wrinkled body appealing.

  2. present participle and gerund of appeal

  3. The act of making an appeal.

    • 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.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at appealing. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at appealing. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

9 hops · closes at appealing

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA