Synonyms for appeal
əˈpilap·peal

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1. appealverb

   To accost is to speak first, to friend or stranger, generally with a view to opening conversation; greet is not so distinctly limited, since one may return another's greeting; greet and hail may imply but a passing word; greeting may be altogether silent; to hail is to greet in a loud-voiced and commonly hearty and joyous way, as appears in the expression "hail fellow, well met." To salute is to greet with special token of respect, as a soldier his commander. To apostrophize is to solemnly address some person or personified attribute apart from the audience to whom one is speaking; as, a preacher may apostrophize virtue, the saints of old, or even the Deity. To appeal is strictly to call for some form of help or support. Address is slightly more formal than accost or greet, though it may often be interchanged with them. One may address another at considerable length or in writing; he accosts orally and briefly.

   Synonyms:
   address, address, apostrophize, approach, cost, court, greet, hail, salute, speak to, woo

   Antonyms:
   avoid, cut, elude, ignore, overlook, pass, pass by, shun

   Preposition:
   Address the memorial to the legislature; the president addressed the people in an eloquent speech; he addressed an intruder with indignation.

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1. appeal

   Synonyms:
   accost, address, apostrophize, invite, cite, invoke, urge, refer, call upon, entreat, request, resort

   Antonyms:
   deprecate, repudiate, protest, disavow, disclaim, defy, abjure

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1. entreaty, prayer, appealnoun

   earnest or urgent request

   "an entreaty to stop the fighting"; "an appeal for help"; "an appeal to the public to keep calm"

   Synonyms:
   entreaty, orison, prayer, supplication, ingathering, supplicant, collection, charm, petition, solicitation, appealingness

2. appeal, appealingness, charmnoun

   attractiveness that interests or pleases or stimulates

   "his smile was part of his appeal to her"

   Synonyms:
   spell, entreaty, good luck charm, ingathering, collection, charm, prayer, magic spell, magical spell, solicitation, appealingness

3. appealnoun

   (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

   "their appeal was denied in the superior court"

   Synonyms:
   prayer, ingathering, appealingness, collection, entreaty, charm, solicitation

4. solicitation, appeal, collection, ingatheringverb

   request for a sum of money

   "an appeal to raise money for starving children"

   Synonyms:
   entreaty, aggregation, prayer, assemblage, ingathering, assembling, collection, charm, collecting, compendium, accumulation, solicitation, appealingness, allurement

5. appealverb

   take a court case to a higher court for review

   "He was found guilty but appealed immediately"

   Synonyms:
   invoke, attract

6. appeal, invokeverb

   request earnestly (something from somebody); ask for aid or protection

   "appeal to somebody for help"; "Invoke God in times of trouble"

   Synonyms:
   bring up, stir, arouse, raise, evoke, attract, put forward, conjure up, call down, invoke, call forth, conjure

7. attract, appealverb

   be attractive to

   "The idea of a vacation appeals to me"; "The beautiful garden attracted many people"

   Synonyms:
   draw in, pull, invoke, draw, pull in, attract

8. appealverb

   challenge (a decision)

   "She appealed the verdict"

   Synonyms:
   invoke, attract

9. invoke, appealverb

   cite as an authority; resort to

   "He invoked the law that would save him"; "I appealed to the law of 1900"; "She invoked an ancient law"

   Synonyms:
   bring up, conjure up, stir, raise, evoke, attract, put forward, arouse, call down, invoke, call forth, conjure

Matched Categories

1. • Attractiveness
   • Challenge
   • Law
   • Proceeding
   • Request

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1. pray

   Submitted by davidb on May 2, 2023  

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1. appealverb

   Synonyms:
   (Law.) refer the case or cause (from one court to another)

2. appealverb

   Synonyms:
   refer to another (in any controversy)

3. appealverb

   Synonyms:
   [Rare.] summon, challenge

4. appealverb

   Synonyms:
   (Law.) refer, transfer by appeal (from one court to another)

5. appealnoun

   Synonyms:
   address, invocation, petition, request, entreaty, imploration, application, solicitation, suit

6. appealnoun

   Synonyms:
   resort, recourse

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1. appealnoun

   Synonyms:
   entreaty, application, petition, resort, recourse

   Associated words:
   appellant, appellate, appellancy, appellatory, appellee, appellor

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1. List of paraphrases for "appeal":

   call, appeals, appellate, recourse, 'appel, remedy, resort, attractiveness, plea, remedies, use, appel, request, resource, attraction, 'appello, redress, urge, calling, appello, cassation, resumption, invitation, beroep, appealing, cail, calls, used, appealed, resume

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How to use appeal in a sentence?

1. Ngoako Ramatlhodi:

   The right of people to protest is protected by our Constitution. However, we condemn acts of violence and intimidation associated with the protests, and appeal for calm by all concerned.

2. Ordecy Gossler:

   It was never clear who Maxxi was for. It wasn't cheap enough for the poor. But there was no appeal for the middle class, when they announced in December that both Maxxis were closing, no one in my office knew where they were.

3. Joy Bauer:

   Mother Nature got it pretty close to perfect herself—she doesn’t need much help, diet foods, which are often heavily processed and loaded with artificial sweeteners and other suspect ingredients, seem to be losing their appeal.

4. Frank-Walter Steinmeier:

   His works are an everlasting appeal to later born generations that the freedom and dignity of the individual are paramount.

5. Simon Chadwick:

   You've got a tried and tested product there that cuts across all ages, classes and genders who will subscribe to watch football, so it's a no-risk deal, in rugby it's different because the sport doesn't have the cross-cultural or cross-demographic appeal that football does. I still don't think rugby has broken out of its heartlands.