word-vault/dist/data/cards/ap/appealing.json

A lightweight JavaScript package for English word definitions and collections.

{
    "term": "appealing",
    "partOfSpeech": "adjective",
    "ox5000": true,
    "cefr": "c1",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "attractive or interesting",
            "cefr": "c1",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "Spending the holidays in Britain wasn't a prospect that I found particularly appealing."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Brightly coloured packaging made the pens especially appealing to children."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The large salary made their offer even more appealing to him."
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "verbs": ["be", "look", "seem"],
                "adverb": ["extremely", "fairly", "very"],
                "preposition": ["to"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "showing that you want people to help you or to show you sympathy",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "‘Would you really help?’ he said with an appealing look."
                }
            ]
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/əˈpiːlɪŋ/",
                "audio": "ap/appealing/appealing__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/əˈpiːlɪŋ/",
                "audio": "ap/appealing/appealing__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": null
}