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Antonyms for appeal

Grammar : Noun, verb
Spell : uh-peel
Phonetic Transcription : əˈpil

Definition of appeal

Origin :
  • early 14c., originally in legal sense of "to call" to a higher judge or court, from Anglo-French apeler "to call upon, accuse," Old French apeler "make an appeal" (11c., Modern French appeler), from Latin appellare "to accost, address, appeal to, summon, name," iterative of appellere "to prepare," from ad- "to" (see ad-) + pellere "to beat, drive" (see pulse (n.1)). Related: Appealed; appealing.
  • Probably a Roman metaphoric extension of a nautical term for "driving a ship toward a particular landing." Popular modern meaning "to be attractive or pleasing" is quite recent, attested from 1907 (appealing in this sense is from 1891), from the notion of "to address oneself in expectation of a sympathetic response."
  • noun request for help
  • noun power to attract, interest
  • verb request
  • verb attract, interest
Example sentences :
  • If he said or did anything, there was no appeal; that was settled, let us pass to something else.
  • Extract from : « Malbone » by Thomas Wentworth Higginson
  • I have no friend but you to whom I can appeal, to whom I dare complain.
  • Extract from : « Clarissa, Volume 1 (of 9) » by Samuel Richardson
  • Should it be ever so unhappily, will it be prudence to complain or appeal?
  • Extract from : « Clarissa, Volume 1 (of 9) » by Samuel Richardson
  • If it were, to whom could I appeal with effect against a husband?
  • Extract from : « Clarissa, Volume 1 (of 9) » by Samuel Richardson
  • In that moment he needed desperately something to which he could appeal for comfort.
  • Extract from : « Way of the Lawless » by Max Brand
  • She was anxious to temporize, for she did not see how to answer her appeal.
  • Extract from : « Weighed and Wanting » by George MacDonald
  • "But just look at it from my point of view," said the major, disturbed by the appeal.
  • Extract from : « Weighed and Wanting » by George MacDonald
  • Nor was there any appeal from the inexorable logic of his remarks.
  • Extract from : « Ridgeway » by Scian Dubh
  • The picture stands in its own right and makes its own appeal.
  • Extract from : « Understanding the Scriptures » by Francis McConnell
  • Their stories are printed here in the hope that they may also appeal to you.
  • Extract from : « The Underdog » by F. Hopkinson Smith

Synonyms for appeal

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