attractive
attractive Lexical Profile
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• adjective
Pleasing or appealing to the senses, especially in physical appearance or beauty.
"The historic district is lined with attractive cobblestone streets and colorful row houses."
Having beneficial qualities or features that arouse interest, desire, or favorable consideration.
"The company offered an attractive compensation package to recruit experienced engineers."
Relating to or acting by a physical force that pulls objects or particles toward one another (in physics and chemistry).
"Gravity is a purely attractive force that acts between all objects with mass."
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Word Origin & Etymology
Borrowed in the late 14th century from Old French attractif, from Late Latin attractivus ('drawing or pulling toward'), derived from the Latin verb attrahere ('to draw to, attract'). Originally used in medicine and physics to describe a force that draws things together, it acquired the figurative sense of 'pleasing or charming' by the late 16th century.