appealing

/əˈpiːlɪŋ/

US pronunciation

American sound/əˈpiːlɪŋ/

əˈpiːlɪŋ

Syllables: 3 syllables
Stress: 2nd syllable stress
Vowel: Schwa vowel
Ending: Final ng sound

ə - ˈpiːlɪŋ -> appealing

Myanmar meaning

(adj) နှစ်သက်စဖွယ်။ (v[ing]) တောင်းပန်နေ

Full entry

appeal /ǝ'pi:l/ v

၁။ ~ to sb (for sth); ~ for sth
လှိုက်လှဲစွာ မေတ္တာရပ်ခံသည်။ အနူးအညွတ် မေတ္တာရပ်သည်။ တောင်းပန် သည်။
Nationalist leaders appealed for calm. ❍ The organization appealed to the government for financial support. ❍ I am appealing on behalf of the famine victims. ❍ The police appealed to the crowd not to panic.
၂။ ~ (to sb) ကြိုက်နှစ်သက်သည်။ စိတ်ကို ဆွဲဆောင် နိုင်စွမ်းရှိသည်။
The idea of camping has never appealed (to me). ❍ Do these paintings appeal to you?
၃။ ~ to sth (တစ်စုံတစ်ရာကို အကြောင်းပြ၍) ဖျောင်းဖျသည်။
appeal to sb's sense of justice ❍ If you want people to return to the negotiating table, you have to appeal to their better natures, not annoy them further.
၄။ (က) ~ (to sb); ~ (against sth) အသနားခံသည်။ မေတ္တာရပ်သည်။ တောင်းပန် သည်။ appeal against disqualification ❍ The captain appealed to the umpire (to stop play). (ခ) အယူခံ ဝင် သည်။ I've decided not to appeal. ❍ She appealed to the high court against her sentence.
n
၁။ (က) [C] ~ (for sth) မေတ္တာရပ်ခံချက်။ make/answer an appeal for help/food/extra staff ❍ a charity appeal.
(ခ) [U] အသနားခံခြင်း။ Her eyes held a look of silent appeal.
၂။ [U] ဆွဲဆောင်မှု။ စိတ်ပါဝင်စားမှု။ Does jazz hold any appeal for you? ❍ The new fashion soon lost its appeal. See also SEX APPEAL
၃။ [C] ~ to sth ဖော်ကျူးဖျောင်းဖျမှု။ relying on an appeal to his finer feelings.
၄။ [C] (က) ~ (against sth) အသနားခံခြင်း။ an appeal against the 3-match ban.
(ခ) (law ) အယူခံဝင်ခြင်း။ အယူခံ။ အယူခံမှု။ lodge an appeal ❍ have the right of appeal ❍ an appeal court. See also COURT OF APPEAL
❏ appealing adj
၁။ နှစ်သက်စဖွယ်။
I don't find young babies very appealing. The idea of a trip abroad is certainly appealing.
၂။ ကရုဏာသက်စဖွယ်။ အသနားခံသော။ an appealing glance. appealingly adv : He looked at her appealingly.

More examples

[appeal for] : The police have renewed their appeal for help from the public.
[launch an appeal] : They have launched an appeal to send food to the flood victims.
[appeal for] : There have been several appeals for an end to the fighting.
[make an appeal] : Seddon made an emotional appeal for his daughter to contact him.
Football has popular appeal (=many people enjoy it).
How do you explain the appeal of horror films?
[broaden/widen your appeal] : The organization is clearly trying to broaden its appeal.
Jones has been released on bail pending an appeal (=until there is an appeal).
An appeal judge/tribunal/hearing
[appeal against] : An appeal against his conviction is being considered.
[lodge/file an appeal] : After the hearing, the defendants announced that they would be lodging an appeal to the Supreme Court.
[allow/dismiss an appeal] : After hearing the accused’s appeal against conviction, six of the judges dismissed it.

Synonyms

plea, petition, application, demand, request, call, address, adjuration, adjure, advance, allure, apply, ask, attract, attraction, attractiveness, beauty, beg, beguile, beseech, bid, call upon, captivate, catch the eye, charm, charmingness, claim, contest, crave, draw, enchant, engage, engagingness, entice, entreat, entreaty, fascinate, fascination, glamor, grab, hit on, imploration, implore, importune, importunity, influence, interest, interestingness, intrigue, invite, invocation, overture, plead, please, pleasingness, pray, prayer, proposal, propose, proposition, pull, question, recourse, refer, require, requisition, resort to, seductiveness, solicit, solicitation, strike, submission, submit, sue, suit, supplicate, supplication, tantalize, tempt, temptation, urge

Antonyms

answer, bore, conceal, denial, deny, disavowal, disclaim, disclaimer, discourage, disenchant, disgust, displease, dissuade, give, ignore, offend, recall, refusal, refuse, renounce, repel, reply, repulse, repulsion, retract, retraction, revocation, revoke, turn away, turn off, ugliness