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attractive

/əˈtɹæktɪv/ adjective A2
  1. Causing attraction; having the quality of attracting by inherent force.
  2. Having the power of charming or alluring by agreeable qualities; enticing. · That's a very attractive offer.
  3. Pleasing or appealing to the senses, especially of a potential romantic partner. · He is an attractive fellow with a trim figure.
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Thereafter, feeling his life a burden from the shame and ridicule to which he was exposed, he schemed to convince all the other Foxes that being tailless was much more attractive, thus making up for his own deprivation.
Three Hundred Aesop's Fables, p. 13 · B2
He is a man who might be attractive to a woman.
The Valley of Fear, p. 60 · C1
Audley Court was not an attractive locality.
A Study in Scarlet, p. 40 · B2
In the first, blazed piles of golden coin; in the second, were ranged bars of unpolished gold, which possessed nothing attractive save their value; in the third, Edmond grasped handfuls of diamonds, pearls, and rubies, which, as they fell on one another, sounded like hail against glass.
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 263 · C1

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