English words for 'make attractive or lovable'
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verb
noun
verb
- make something appear superficially attractive
- put on special clothes to appear particularly appealing and attractive
- dress in a certain manner
- put a caparison on
- dress in a costume
- (intransitive) To put on special or fancy clothes.
- (transitive) To decorate; to prettify.
- (transitive) To present in a favorable light.
- (intransitive, often with 'as') To put on a costume portraying oneself as a particular type of character or well-known person.
- (transitive, often with 'as') To put a costume on (someone) portraying them as a particular type of character or well-known person.
noun
- attractiveness that interests or pleases or stimulates
- (law) a legal proceeding in which the appellant resorts to a higher court for the purpose of obtaining a review of a lower court decision and a reversal of the lower court's judgment or the granting of a new trial
- earnest or urgent request
- request for a sum of money
- (cricket) The act, by the fielding side, of asking an umpire for a decision on whether a batsman is out or not.
- (rhetoric) a use of a principle or quality for purposes of persuasion.
- (historical) At common law, an accusation made against a felon by one of their accomplices (called an approver).
- (historical) A summons to defend one's honour in a duel, or one's innocence in a trial by combat; a challenge.
- A person's legal right to apply to court for such a review.
- (historical) A process which formerly might be instituted by one private person against another for some heinous crime demanding punishment for the particular injury suffered, rather than for the offence against the public; an accusation.
- (figuratively) A power to attract or interest.
- The legal document or form by which such an application is made; also, the court case in which the application is argued.
- (figuratively) A resort to some physical means; a recourse.
- A call to a person or an authority for a decision, help, or proof; an entreaty, an invocation.
- (historical) An accusation or charge against someone for wrongdoing (especially treason).
- An application to a superior court or judge for a decision or order by an inferior court or judge to be reviewed and overturned.
verb
- be attractive to
- (intransitive, figuratively) To be attractive.
- take a court case to a higher court for review
- cite as an authority; resort to
- request earnestly (something from somebody); ask for aid or protection
- challenge (a decision)
- (transitive, historical) To accuse or charge (someone) with wrongdoing (especially treason).
- (transitive, historical) To summon (someone) to defend their honour in a duel, or their innocence in a trial by combat; to challenge.
- (intransitive) Often followed by against (the inferior court's decision) or to (the superior court): to apply to a superior court or judge for a decision or order by an inferior court or judge to be reviewed and overturned.
- (intransitive) To call upon a person or an authority to corroborate a statement, to decide a controverted question, or to vindicate one's rights; to entreat, to invoke.
- (transitive, historical) Of the accomplice of a felon: to make an accusation at common law against (the felon).
- (transitive, historical) Of a private person: to instituted legal proceedings (against another private person) for some heinous crime, demanding punishment for the particular injury suffered.
- (intransitive) To call upon someone for a favour, help, etc.
- (transitive, originally US) To apply to a superior court or judge to review and overturn (a decision or order by an inferior court or judge).
- (intransitive, figuratively) To have recourse or resort to some physical means.
- (intransitive, cricket) Of a fielding side; to ask an umpire for a decision on whether a batsman is out or not, usually by saying "How's that?" or "Howzat?".
noun
- attractiveness that interests or pleases or stimulates
- a verbal formula believed to have magical force
- (physics) one of the six flavors of quark, the third most massive of all quarks
- something believed to bring good luck
- The collective noun for a group of goldfinches.
- (particle physics) A quantum number of hadrons determined by the number of charm quarks and antiquarks.
- (graphical user interface, Microsoft Windows) An icon providing quick access to a command or setting.
- The mixed sound of many voices, especially of birds or children.
- (finance) A second-order measure of derivative price sensitivity, expressed as the instantaneous rate of change of delta with respect to time.
- A small trinket on a bracelet or chain, etc., traditionally supposed to confer luck upon the wearer.
- An object, act or words believed to have magic power (usually carries a positive connotation).
- (often in the plural) The ability to persuade, delight or arouse admiration.
- A flock, group (especially of finches).
verb
- induce into action by using one's charm
- attract; cause to be enamored
- control by magic spells, as by practicing witchcraft
- protect through supernatural powers or charms
- (transitive) To use a magical charm upon; to subdue, control, or summon by incantation or supernatural influence; to ensorcel or exert a magical effect on.
- To seduce, persuade or fascinate someone or something.
- To subdue or overcome by some secret power, or by that which gives pleasure; to allay; to soothe.
- To protect with, or make invulnerable by, spells, charms, or supernatural influences.
verb
- be attractive to
- direct toward itself or oneself by means of some psychological power or physical attributes
- exert a force on (a body) causing it to approach or prevent it from moving away
- (transitive) To pull toward without touching.
- (transitive) To incur.
- (transitive) To draw by moral, emotional or sexual influence; to engage or fix, as the mind, attention, etc.; to invite or allure.
adj
- Having an attractive appearance intended to generate a favorable response; deceptively attractive.
- Employing fallacious but deceptively plausible arguments; deceitful.
- Seemingly well-reasoned, plausible or true, but actually fallacious.
- Alternative form of speciose (“rich in species”).
- plausible but false
- based on pretense; deceptively pleasing
noun
- alluring beauty or charm (often with sex-appeal)
- A kind of haze in the air, causing things to appear different from what they really are.
- (uncountable) Alluring beauty or charm (often with sex appeal).
- (countable) An item, motif, person, image that by association improves appearance.
- (slang, countable) A beautiful woman.
- (uncountable) Any excitement, appeal, or attractiveness associated with a person, place, or thing; that which makes something appealing.
- (uncountable) Originally, enchantment; magic charm; especially, the effect of a spell that causes one to see objects in a form that differs from reality, typically to make filthy, ugly, or repulsive things seem beauteous.
- Any artificial interest in, or association with, objects, or persons, through which they appear delusively magnified or glorified.
verb
verb
- give rise to a desire by being attractive or inviting
- have as a guest
- invite someone to one's house
- ask someone in a friendly way to do something
- ask to enter
- express willingness to have in one's home or environs
- request the participation or presence of
- increase the likelihood of
- (transitive) To encourage.
- (transitive) To request formally.
- (transitive) To allure; to draw to; to tempt to come; to induce by pleasure or hope; to attract.
- (transitive) To ask for the presence or participation of someone or something.
noun
verb
- give rise to a desire by being attractive or inviting
- try presumptuously
- induce into action by using one's charm
- dispose or incline or entice to
- provoke someone to do something through (often false or exaggerated) promises or persuasion
- try to seduce
- (transitive) To attract; to allure.
- (transitive) To provoke someone to do wrong, especially by promising a reward; to entice.
- (transitive) To provoke something; to court.
adj
- (figurative) Attention-grabbing and superficially attractive.
- Having a smooth, silklike, reflective (shiny) surface.
- superficially attractive and stylish; suggesting wealth or expense
- based on pretense; deceptively pleasing
- reflecting light
- (of paper and fabric and leather) having a surface made smooth and shiny especially by pressing between rollers
noun
verb
noun
adj
noun
verb
adj
- pleasing to the eye or mind especially through beauty or charm
- Having the power of charming or alluring by agreeable qualities; enticing.
- having the properties of a magnet; the ability to draw or pull
- having power to arouse interest
- Causing attraction; having the quality of attracting by inherent force.
- Pleasing or appealing to the senses, especially of a potential romantic partner.
verb
- (intransitive) To present an attractive personal appearance.
- (intransitive, factive) To render service by being a servant, worker, employee, or officeholder; to hold those roles and perform their duties.
- (intransitive) To usefully take the place as, instead of something else.
- (ambitransitive, slang, drugs) To provide crack cocaine (to), usually by selling, dealing, or distributing.
- (transitive) To wait upon (someone) at table; to set food and drink in front of, to help (someone) to food, meals etc.
- (transitive) To perform (a public obligation).
- (transitive) To copulate with (of male animals); to cover.
- (transitive) To be a servant for; to work for, to be employed by.
- To officially deliver (a legal notice, summons etc.).
- To make legal service upon (a person named in a writ, summons, etc.)
- (intransitive) To have a given use or purpose; to function for something or to do something.
- (transitive) To evoke (something, especially a person) with one's personal appearance.
- (transitive, military) To work, to operate (a weapon).
- (transitive) To work through (a given period of time in prison, a sentence).
- (transitive) To set down (food or drink) on the table to be eaten; to bring (food, drink) to a person.
- (transitive, intransitive, sports) To lead off with the first delivery over the net in tennis, volleyball, ping pong, badminton etc.
- (transitive) To be a formal servant for (a god or deity); to worship in an official capacity.
- (nautical) To wind spun yarn etc. tightly around (a rope or cable, etc.) so as to protect it from chafing or from the weather.
- (transitive) To attractively display (something, especially a body part) as part of one's personal appearance.
- (intransitive) To be in military service.
- (transitive) To be useful to; to meet the needs of.
- put the ball into play
- devote (part of) one's life or efforts to, as of countries, institutions, or ideas
- do military service
- deliver a warrant or summons to someone
- promote, benefit, or be useful or beneficial to
- mate with
- provide (usually but not necessarily food)
- be sufficient; be adequate, either in quality or quantity
- be used by; as of a utility
- serve a purpose, role, or function
- do duty or hold offices; serve in a specific function
- contribute or conduce to
- spend time in prison or in a labor camp
- help to some food; help with food or drink
- work for, or be a servant to
noun
adj
noun
- (uncountable) A seizure of someone's goods or possessions.
- (uncountable) A state of mental distress, resulting in excited or erratic behavior (in the expression in a taking).
- The act by which something is taken.
- (in the plural, Commonwealth, UK, Ireland) Cash or money received (by a shop or other business, for example).
- the act of someone who picks up or takes something
verb
adj
noun
verb
adj
- Sexually attractive or pleasing; gorgeous.
- Lovable, charming, attractive or pleasing, especially in a youthful, dainty, quaint or fun-spirited way.
- attractive especially by means of smallness or prettiness or quaintness
- Affected or contrived to charm; mincingly clever; precious; cutesy.
- Possessing physical features, behaviors, personality traits or other properties that are mainly attributed to infants and small or cuddly animals; e.g. fair, dainty, round, and soft physical features, disproportionately large eyes and head, playfulness, fragility, helplessness, curiosity or shyness, innocence, affectionate behavior.
- (especially mathematics) Evincing cleverness; surprising in its elegance or unconventionality (but of limited importance).
- Mentally keen or discerning (See also acute)
- obviously contrived to charm
verb
noun
adj
- Possessing beauty, impressing the eye; attractive.
- Impressing with charm in an intellectual or moral way, through inherent suitability or elegance.
- That one likes very much.
- Used emphatically or ironically, after the noun it qualifies.
- Affording pleasure to any of the senses, especially that of hearing; delightful.
- (of weather) highly enjoyable
- delighting the senses or exciting intellectual or emotional admiration
noun
noun
- attractiveness in appearance or dress or manner
- (countable, colloquial, Jamaica) Alternative form of spliff (“hand-rolled marijuana cigarette”).
- (countable, commerce, slang) A bonus or other remuneration, given for reaching a sales goal or promoting the goods of a particular manufacturer. Originally from textile retailing, a percentage given for selling off surplus or out-of-fashion stock, of which the sales person could offer part as a discount to a customer.
- (uncountable) Attractiveness or charm in dress, appearance, or manner.
verb
adj
noun
- (often in plural) Buttock or bottom.
- (countable, uncountable) Soft juicy stone fruit of the peach tree, having yellow flesh, downy, red-tinted yellow skin, and a deeply sculptured pit or stone containing a single seed.
- (countable) Any tree of species Prunus persica, native to China and now widely cultivated throughout temperate regions, having pink flowers and edible fruit.
- (uncountable) A light yellow-red colour.
- (countable, informal) A particularly admirable or pleasing person or thing.
- a shade of pink tinged with yellow
- downy juicy fruit with sweet yellowish or whitish flesh
- cultivated in temperate regions
- a very attractive or seductive looking woman
verb
adj
adj
- Having a pleasing appearance, good-looking, attractive, particularly:
- Generous or noble in character.
- Of a woman: statuesque, beautiful in a masculine or otherwise imposing way.
- Suitable or fit in action; marked with propriety and ease; appropriate.
- Good, appealing, appropriate.
- (of weather) Fine, clear and bright.
- Of a man or boy: attractively manly, having a pleasing face and overall effect.
- Ample; moderately large.
- given or giving freely
- pleasing in appearance especially by reason of conformity to ideals of form and proportion
adj
noun
- shrewdness as demonstrated by being skilled in deception
- crafty artfulness (especially in deception)
- The disposition to employ one's skill in an artful manner; craftiness; guile; artifice; skill of being cunning, sly, conniving, or deceitful.
- The natural wit or instincts of an animal.
- Practical knowledge or experience; aptitude in performance; skill, proficiency; dexterity.
- Practical skill employed in a secret or crafty manner; craft; artifice; skillful deceit; art or magic.
adj
- Having sex appeal; attractive.
- (of a thing or concept) Intriguing, appealing, likely to excite interest.
- (rare) Sexual; relating to or involving sex.
- (mathematics) Used to describe prime numbers that differ from each other by six.
- stimulating sexual desire
- marked by or tending to arouse sexual desire or interest
adj
- pleasant or pleasing or agreeable in nature or appearance
- exhibiting courtesy and politeness
- done with delicacy and skill
- excessively fastidious and easily disgusted
- socially or conventionally correct; refined or virtuous
- Respectable; virtuous.
- (with and, chiefly informal) Shows that the given adjective is desirable, or acts as a mild intensifier; pleasantly, quite.
- Showing or requiring great precision or sensitive discernment; subtle.
- (chiefly informal) Pleasant, satisfactory.
- (chiefly informal) Showing refinement or delicacy, proper, seemly
- (chiefly informal) Of a person: friendly, attractive.
- (chiefly informal) Giving a favorable review or having a favorable impression.
adv
intj
noun
verb
adj
noun
verb
noun
- attractiveness that interests or pleases or stimulates
- (law) a legal proceeding in which the appellant resorts to a higher court for the purpose of obtaining a review of a lower court decision and a reversal of the lower court's judgment or the granting of a new trial
- earnest or urgent request
- request for a sum of money
- (cricket) The act, by the fielding side, of asking an umpire for a decision on whether a batsman is out or not.
- (rhetoric) a use of a principle or quality for purposes of persuasion.
- (historical) At common law, an accusation made against a felon by one of their accomplices (called an approver).
- (historical) A summons to defend one's honour in a duel, or one's innocence in a trial by combat; a challenge.
- A person's legal right to apply to court for such a review.
- (historical) A process which formerly might be instituted by one private person against another for some heinous crime demanding punishment for the particular injury suffered, rather than for the offence against the public; an accusation.
- (figuratively) A power to attract or interest.
- The legal document or form by which such an application is made; also, the court case in which the application is argued.
- (figuratively) A resort to some physical means; a recourse.
- A call to a person or an authority for a decision, help, or proof; an entreaty, an invocation.
- (historical) An accusation or charge against someone for wrongdoing (especially treason).
- An application to a superior court or judge for a decision or order by an inferior court or judge to be reviewed and overturned.
verb
- be attractive to
- (intransitive, figuratively) To be attractive.
- take a court case to a higher court for review
- cite as an authority; resort to
- request earnestly (something from somebody); ask for aid or protection
- challenge (a decision)
- (transitive, historical) To accuse or charge (someone) with wrongdoing (especially treason).
- (transitive, historical) To summon (someone) to defend their honour in a duel, or their innocence in a trial by combat; to challenge.
- (intransitive) Often followed by against (the inferior court's decision) or to (the superior court): to apply to a superior court or judge for a decision or order by an inferior court or judge to be reviewed and overturned.
- (intransitive) To call upon a person or an authority to corroborate a statement, to decide a controverted question, or to vindicate one's rights; to entreat, to invoke.
- (transitive, historical) Of the accomplice of a felon: to make an accusation at common law against (the felon).
- (transitive, historical) Of a private person: to instituted legal proceedings (against another private person) for some heinous crime, demanding punishment for the particular injury suffered.
- (intransitive) To call upon someone for a favour, help, etc.
- (transitive, originally US) To apply to a superior court or judge to review and overturn (a decision or order by an inferior court or judge).
- (intransitive, figuratively) To have recourse or resort to some physical means.
- (intransitive, cricket) Of a fielding side; to ask an umpire for a decision on whether a batsman is out or not, usually by saying "How's that?" or "Howzat?".
noun
- attractiveness that interests or pleases or stimulates
- a verbal formula believed to have magical force
- (physics) one of the six flavors of quark, the third most massive of all quarks
- something believed to bring good luck
- The collective noun for a group of goldfinches.
- (particle physics) A quantum number of hadrons determined by the number of charm quarks and antiquarks.
- (graphical user interface, Microsoft Windows) An icon providing quick access to a command or setting.
- The mixed sound of many voices, especially of birds or children.
- (finance) A second-order measure of derivative price sensitivity, expressed as the instantaneous rate of change of delta with respect to time.
- A small trinket on a bracelet or chain, etc., traditionally supposed to confer luck upon the wearer.
- An object, act or words believed to have magic power (usually carries a positive connotation).
- (often in the plural) The ability to persuade, delight or arouse admiration.
- A flock, group (especially of finches).
verb
- induce into action by using one's charm
- attract; cause to be enamored
- control by magic spells, as by practicing witchcraft
- protect through supernatural powers or charms
- (transitive) To use a magical charm upon; to subdue, control, or summon by incantation or supernatural influence; to ensorcel or exert a magical effect on.
- To seduce, persuade or fascinate someone or something.
- To subdue or overcome by some secret power, or by that which gives pleasure; to allay; to soothe.
- To protect with, or make invulnerable by, spells, charms, or supernatural influences.
noun
- alluring beauty or charm (often with sex-appeal)
- A kind of haze in the air, causing things to appear different from what they really are.
- (uncountable) Alluring beauty or charm (often with sex appeal).
- (countable) An item, motif, person, image that by association improves appearance.
- (slang, countable) A beautiful woman.
- (uncountable) Any excitement, appeal, or attractiveness associated with a person, place, or thing; that which makes something appealing.
- (uncountable) Originally, enchantment; magic charm; especially, the effect of a spell that causes one to see objects in a form that differs from reality, typically to make filthy, ugly, or repulsive things seem beauteous.
- Any artificial interest in, or association with, objects, or persons, through which they appear delusively magnified or glorified.
verb
noun
- attractiveness in appearance or dress or manner
- (countable, colloquial, Jamaica) Alternative form of spliff (“hand-rolled marijuana cigarette”).
- (countable, commerce, slang) A bonus or other remuneration, given for reaching a sales goal or promoting the goods of a particular manufacturer. Originally from textile retailing, a percentage given for selling off surplus or out-of-fashion stock, of which the sales person could offer part as a discount to a customer.
- (uncountable) Attractiveness or charm in dress, appearance, or manner.
verb
verb
noun
verb
- make something appear superficially attractive
- put on special clothes to appear particularly appealing and attractive
- dress in a certain manner
- put a caparison on
- dress in a costume
- (intransitive) To put on special or fancy clothes.
- (transitive) To decorate; to prettify.
- (transitive) To present in a favorable light.
- (intransitive, often with 'as') To put on a costume portraying oneself as a particular type of character or well-known person.
- (transitive, often with 'as') To put a costume on (someone) portraying them as a particular type of character or well-known person.
noun
- attractiveness that interests or pleases or stimulates
- (law) a legal proceeding in which the appellant resorts to a higher court for the purpose of obtaining a review of a lower court decision and a reversal of the lower court's judgment or the granting of a new trial
- earnest or urgent request
- request for a sum of money
- (cricket) The act, by the fielding side, of asking an umpire for a decision on whether a batsman is out or not.
- (rhetoric) a use of a principle or quality for purposes of persuasion.
- (historical) At common law, an accusation made against a felon by one of their accomplices (called an approver).
- (historical) A summons to defend one's honour in a duel, or one's innocence in a trial by combat; a challenge.
- A person's legal right to apply to court for such a review.
- (historical) A process which formerly might be instituted by one private person against another for some heinous crime demanding punishment for the particular injury suffered, rather than for the offence against the public; an accusation.
- (figuratively) A power to attract or interest.
- The legal document or form by which such an application is made; also, the court case in which the application is argued.
- (figuratively) A resort to some physical means; a recourse.
- A call to a person or an authority for a decision, help, or proof; an entreaty, an invocation.
- (historical) An accusation or charge against someone for wrongdoing (especially treason).
- An application to a superior court or judge for a decision or order by an inferior court or judge to be reviewed and overturned.
verb
- be attractive to
- (intransitive, figuratively) To be attractive.
- take a court case to a higher court for review
- cite as an authority; resort to
- request earnestly (something from somebody); ask for aid or protection
- challenge (a decision)
- (transitive, historical) To accuse or charge (someone) with wrongdoing (especially treason).
- (transitive, historical) To summon (someone) to defend their honour in a duel, or their innocence in a trial by combat; to challenge.
- (intransitive) Often followed by against (the inferior court's decision) or to (the superior court): to apply to a superior court or judge for a decision or order by an inferior court or judge to be reviewed and overturned.
- (intransitive) To call upon a person or an authority to corroborate a statement, to decide a controverted question, or to vindicate one's rights; to entreat, to invoke.
- (transitive, historical) Of the accomplice of a felon: to make an accusation at common law against (the felon).
- (transitive, historical) Of a private person: to instituted legal proceedings (against another private person) for some heinous crime, demanding punishment for the particular injury suffered.
- (intransitive) To call upon someone for a favour, help, etc.
- (transitive, originally US) To apply to a superior court or judge to review and overturn (a decision or order by an inferior court or judge).
- (intransitive, figuratively) To have recourse or resort to some physical means.
- (intransitive, cricket) Of a fielding side; to ask an umpire for a decision on whether a batsman is out or not, usually by saying "How's that?" or "Howzat?".
verb
- be attractive to
- direct toward itself or oneself by means of some psychological power or physical attributes
- exert a force on (a body) causing it to approach or prevent it from moving away
- (transitive) To pull toward without touching.
- (transitive) To incur.
- (transitive) To draw by moral, emotional or sexual influence; to engage or fix, as the mind, attention, etc.; to invite or allure.
verb
- give rise to a desire by being attractive or inviting
- have as a guest
- invite someone to one's house
- ask someone in a friendly way to do something
- ask to enter
- express willingness to have in one's home or environs
- request the participation or presence of
- increase the likelihood of
- (transitive) To encourage.
- (transitive) To request formally.
- (transitive) To allure; to draw to; to tempt to come; to induce by pleasure or hope; to attract.
- (transitive) To ask for the presence or participation of someone or something.
noun
verb
- give rise to a desire by being attractive or inviting
- try presumptuously
- induce into action by using one's charm
- dispose or incline or entice to
- provoke someone to do something through (often false or exaggerated) promises or persuasion
- try to seduce
- (transitive) To attract; to allure.
- (transitive) To provoke someone to do wrong, especially by promising a reward; to entice.
- (transitive) To provoke something; to court.
verb
noun
verb
- (intransitive) To present an attractive personal appearance.
- (intransitive, factive) To render service by being a servant, worker, employee, or officeholder; to hold those roles and perform their duties.
- (intransitive) To usefully take the place as, instead of something else.
- (ambitransitive, slang, drugs) To provide crack cocaine (to), usually by selling, dealing, or distributing.
- (transitive) To wait upon (someone) at table; to set food and drink in front of, to help (someone) to food, meals etc.
- (transitive) To perform (a public obligation).
- (transitive) To copulate with (of male animals); to cover.
- (transitive) To be a servant for; to work for, to be employed by.
- To officially deliver (a legal notice, summons etc.).
- To make legal service upon (a person named in a writ, summons, etc.)
- (intransitive) To have a given use or purpose; to function for something or to do something.
- (transitive) To evoke (something, especially a person) with one's personal appearance.
- (transitive, military) To work, to operate (a weapon).
- (transitive) To work through (a given period of time in prison, a sentence).
- (transitive) To set down (food or drink) on the table to be eaten; to bring (food, drink) to a person.
- (transitive, intransitive, sports) To lead off with the first delivery over the net in tennis, volleyball, ping pong, badminton etc.
- (transitive) To be a formal servant for (a god or deity); to worship in an official capacity.
- (nautical) To wind spun yarn etc. tightly around (a rope or cable, etc.) so as to protect it from chafing or from the weather.
- (transitive) To attractively display (something, especially a body part) as part of one's personal appearance.
- (intransitive) To be in military service.
- (transitive) To be useful to; to meet the needs of.
- put the ball into play
- devote (part of) one's life or efforts to, as of countries, institutions, or ideas
- do military service
- deliver a warrant or summons to someone
- promote, benefit, or be useful or beneficial to
- mate with
- provide (usually but not necessarily food)
- be sufficient; be adequate, either in quality or quantity
- be used by; as of a utility
- serve a purpose, role, or function
- do duty or hold offices; serve in a specific function
- contribute or conduce to
- spend time in prison or in a labor camp
- help to some food; help with food or drink
- work for, or be a servant to
noun
verb
noun
adj
- Having an attractive appearance intended to generate a favorable response; deceptively attractive.
- Employing fallacious but deceptively plausible arguments; deceitful.
- Seemingly well-reasoned, plausible or true, but actually fallacious.
- Alternative form of speciose (“rich in species”).
- plausible but false
- based on pretense; deceptively pleasing
adj
- (figurative) Attention-grabbing and superficially attractive.
- Having a smooth, silklike, reflective (shiny) surface.
- superficially attractive and stylish; suggesting wealth or expense
- based on pretense; deceptively pleasing
- reflecting light
- (of paper and fabric and leather) having a surface made smooth and shiny especially by pressing between rollers
noun
adj
noun
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adj
- pleasing to the eye or mind especially through beauty or charm
- Having the power of charming or alluring by agreeable qualities; enticing.
- having the properties of a magnet; the ability to draw or pull
- having power to arouse interest
- Causing attraction; having the quality of attracting by inherent force.
- Pleasing or appealing to the senses, especially of a potential romantic partner.
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- (uncountable) A seizure of someone's goods or possessions.
- (uncountable) A state of mental distress, resulting in excited or erratic behavior (in the expression in a taking).
- The act by which something is taken.
- (in the plural, Commonwealth, UK, Ireland) Cash or money received (by a shop or other business, for example).
- the act of someone who picks up or takes something
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- Sexually attractive or pleasing; gorgeous.
- Lovable, charming, attractive or pleasing, especially in a youthful, dainty, quaint or fun-spirited way.
- attractive especially by means of smallness or prettiness or quaintness
- Affected or contrived to charm; mincingly clever; precious; cutesy.
- Possessing physical features, behaviors, personality traits or other properties that are mainly attributed to infants and small or cuddly animals; e.g. fair, dainty, round, and soft physical features, disproportionately large eyes and head, playfulness, fragility, helplessness, curiosity or shyness, innocence, affectionate behavior.
- (especially mathematics) Evincing cleverness; surprising in its elegance or unconventionality (but of limited importance).
- Mentally keen or discerning (See also acute)
- obviously contrived to charm
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- Possessing beauty, impressing the eye; attractive.
- Impressing with charm in an intellectual or moral way, through inherent suitability or elegance.
- That one likes very much.
- Used emphatically or ironically, after the noun it qualifies.
- Affording pleasure to any of the senses, especially that of hearing; delightful.
- (of weather) highly enjoyable
- delighting the senses or exciting intellectual or emotional admiration
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- (often in plural) Buttock or bottom.
- (countable, uncountable) Soft juicy stone fruit of the peach tree, having yellow flesh, downy, red-tinted yellow skin, and a deeply sculptured pit or stone containing a single seed.
- (countable) Any tree of species Prunus persica, native to China and now widely cultivated throughout temperate regions, having pink flowers and edible fruit.
- (uncountable) A light yellow-red colour.
- (countable, informal) A particularly admirable or pleasing person or thing.
- a shade of pink tinged with yellow
- downy juicy fruit with sweet yellowish or whitish flesh
- cultivated in temperate regions
- a very attractive or seductive looking woman
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- Having a pleasing appearance, good-looking, attractive, particularly:
- Generous or noble in character.
- Of a woman: statuesque, beautiful in a masculine or otherwise imposing way.
- Suitable or fit in action; marked with propriety and ease; appropriate.
- Good, appealing, appropriate.
- (of weather) Fine, clear and bright.
- Of a man or boy: attractively manly, having a pleasing face and overall effect.
- Ample; moderately large.
- given or giving freely
- pleasing in appearance especially by reason of conformity to ideals of form and proportion
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- shrewdness as demonstrated by being skilled in deception
- crafty artfulness (especially in deception)
- The disposition to employ one's skill in an artful manner; craftiness; guile; artifice; skill of being cunning, sly, conniving, or deceitful.
- The natural wit or instincts of an animal.
- Practical knowledge or experience; aptitude in performance; skill, proficiency; dexterity.
- Practical skill employed in a secret or crafty manner; craft; artifice; skillful deceit; art or magic.
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- Having sex appeal; attractive.
- (of a thing or concept) Intriguing, appealing, likely to excite interest.
- (rare) Sexual; relating to or involving sex.
- (mathematics) Used to describe prime numbers that differ from each other by six.
- stimulating sexual desire
- marked by or tending to arouse sexual desire or interest
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- pleasant or pleasing or agreeable in nature or appearance
- exhibiting courtesy and politeness
- done with delicacy and skill
- excessively fastidious and easily disgusted
- socially or conventionally correct; refined or virtuous
- Respectable; virtuous.
- (with and, chiefly informal) Shows that the given adjective is desirable, or acts as a mild intensifier; pleasantly, quite.
- Showing or requiring great precision or sensitive discernment; subtle.
- (chiefly informal) Pleasant, satisfactory.
- (chiefly informal) Showing refinement or delicacy, proper, seemly
- (chiefly informal) Of a person: friendly, attractive.
- (chiefly informal) Giving a favorable review or having a favorable impression.