Difference between Attractive and Appealing

What is the difference between Attractive and Appealing?

Attractive as an adjective is causing attraction; having the quality of attracting by inherent force. while Appealing as an adjective is having appeal; attractive.

Attractive

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: Causing attraction; having the quality of attracting by inherent force. Having the power of charming or alluring by agreeable qualities; enticing. Pleasing or appealing to the senses.

Example sentence: I think that sexuality is only attractive when it's natural and spontaneous.

Appealing

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: Having appeal; attractive.

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To call upon another to decide a question controverted, to corroborate a statement, to vindicate one's rights, etc.

Example sentence: In 2015, an opera opened about me and Justice Antonin Scalia. It's called 'Scalia/Ginsburg.' The composer, Derrick Wang, has degrees in music from Harvard and Yale. Enrolled in law school, he was reading dueling opinions by me and Justice Scalia and decided he could compose an appealing comic opera from them.

We hope you now know whether to use Attractive or Appealing in your sentence.

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