appeal

1. 1.

   earnest or urgent request

   “an entreaty to stop the fighting”

   “an appeal for help”

   “an appeal to the public to keep calm”

   Synonymsentreatyprayer

   Broaderrequest

   Narroweradjurationdemagoguerysupplicationsolicitationsuitcourtship
2. 2.

   attractiveness that interests or pleases or stimulates

   “his smile was part of his appeal to her”

   Synonymsappealingnesscharm

   Broaderattractiveness

   Narrowersiren callwinsomeness
3. 3.

   (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”

   Broaderproceeding

   law

4. 4.

   request for a sum of money

   “an appeal to raise money for starving children”

   Synonymssolicitationcollectioningathering

   Broaderrequest

   Narrowerwhip-round

Other forms of appeal

plural

appeals·

past tense

appealed·

present participle

appealing·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about appeal

What does appeal mean?

appeal means "take a court case to a higher court for review". That is the primary sense; the word has 9 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in appeal?

appeal has 2 syllables: ap-peal. The stress falls on "peal". In IPA it is /əˈpil/.

What is another word for appeal?

Close synonyms include invoke, attract, invoke, entreaty, prayer. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is appeal a common word?

appeal is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with appeal?

3 words rhyme with appeal. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.