Antonyms for appealed
| Grammar : Verb |
| Spell : uh-peel |
| Phonetic Transcription : əˈpil |
Definition of appealed
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."
- verb request
- verb attract, interest
- Never had her youthful freshness so appealed to her brother.
- Extract from : « The Spenders » by Harry Leon Wilson
- Yet Hope had appealed to him so simply, had trusted him so nobly!
- Extract from : « Malbone » by Thomas Wentworth Higginson
- But, what roused him in violent resentment only appealed to Sidney's curiosity.
- Extract from : « K » by Mary Roberts Rinehart
- Nizam, the eldest, came to Gilgit and appealed to the British.
- Extract from : « The Story of the Malakand Field Force » by Sir Winston S. Churchill
- He strikes me as a very unusual person, and she appealed to me in the same way.
- Extract from : « Her Father's Daughter » by Gene Stratton-Porter
- Nothing else can be appealed to in the field, or in the senate.
- Extract from : « An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding » by David Hume
- A military lord rose to order, and appealed to the Woolsack.
- Extract from : « Alice, or The Mysteries, Complete » by Edward Bulwer-Lytton
- "You may judge between us," he appealed to her directly, once more.
- Extract from : « The Black Bag » by Louis Joseph Vance
- She remembered then that they could not understand half she was saying, and appealed to Viney.
- Extract from : « Good Indian » by B. M. Bower
- She appealed to the Inward Monitor, but it refused to be propitiated.
- Extract from : « The Incomplete Amorist » by E. Nesbit
Synonyms for appealed
- address
- adjure
- advance
- allure
- apply
- ask
- beg
- beguile
- beseech
- bid
- call
- call upon
- captivate
- catch the eye
- charm
- claim
- contest
- crave
- demand
- enchant
- engage
- entice
- entreat
- fascinate
- hit on
- implore
- importune
- intrigue
- invite
- petition
- plead
- please
- pray
- propose
- proposition
- question
- refer
- require
- resort to
- solicit
- strike
- submit
- sue
- supplicate
- tantalize
- tempt
- urge
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