Word Meanings - ATTRACT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. To draw to, or cause to tend to; esp. to cause to approach, adhere, or combine; or to cause to resist divulsion, separation, or decomposition. All bodies and all parts of bodies mutually attract themselves and one another. Derham. 2. To draw

Additional info about word: ATTRACT

1. To draw to, or cause to tend to; esp. to cause to approach, adhere, or combine; or to cause to resist divulsion, separation, or decomposition. All bodies and all parts of bodies mutually attract themselves and one another. Derham. 2. To draw by influence of a moral or emotional kind; to engage or fix, as the mind, attention, etc.; to invite or allure; as, to attract admirers. Attracted by thy beauty still to gaze. Milton. Syn. -- To draw; allure; invite; entice; influence.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of ATTRACT)

• Allure
• Entice
• seduce
• attract
• tempt
• decoy
• inveigle
• wheedle
• lure
• cajole
• Attach
• Fasten
• apply
• append
• add
• fix
• subjoin
• annex
• unite
• conciliate
• tie
• connect
• conjoin
• win
• bind
• Draw
• Drag
• pull
• induce
• haul
• entice
• inhale
• sketch
• delineate
• describe
• Engage
• Promise
• undertake
• vouch
• employ
• occupy
• hire
• gain
• enlist
• stipulate
• pledge
• agree
• buy
• adopt
• involve
• Enrapture
• Beatify
• entrance
• enchant
• fascinate
• bewitch
• captivate
• transport
• charm
• ravish

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of ATTRACT)

• Slave
• prevent
• disincline
• dissuade
• Redeem

Related words: (words related to ATTRACT)

• ANNEX
  to; ad + nectere to tie, to fasten together, akin to Skr. nah to 1. To join or attach; usually to subjoin; to affix; to append; -- followed by to. "He annexed a codicil to a will." Johnson. 2. To join or add, as a smaller thing to a greater. He
• CAJOLERY
  A wheedling to delude; words used in cajoling; flattery. "Infamous cajoleries." Evelyn.
• RAVISHER
  One who ravishes .
• INDUCER
  One who, or that which, induces or incites.
• UNITERABLE
  Not iterable; incapable of being repeated. "To play away an uniterable life." Sir T. Browne.
• DELINEATE
  Delineated; portrayed.
• PREVENTATIVE
  That which prevents; -- incorrectly used instead of preventive.
• CONNECTOR
  One who, or that which, connects; as: A flexible tube for connecting the ends of glass tubes in pneumatic experiments. A device for holding two parts of an electrical conductor in contact.
• SEDUCEMENT
  1. The act of seducing. 2. The means employed to seduce, as flattery, promises, deception, etc.; arts of enticing or corrupting. Pope.
• INVOLVEDNESS
  The state of being involved.
• DECOYER
  One who decoys another.
• CAPTIVATE
  1. To take prisoner; to capture; to subdue. Their woes whom fortune captivates. Shak. 2. To acquire ascendancy over by reason of some art or attraction; to fascinate; to charm; as, Cleopatra captivated Antony; the orator captivated all hearts.
• TEMPTER
  One who tempts or entices; especially, Satan, or the Devil, regarded as the great enticer to evil. "Those who are bent to do wickedly will never want tempters to urge them on." Tillotson. So glozed the Tempter, and his proem tuned. Milton.
• TRANSPORTING
  That transports; fig., ravishing. Your transporting chords ring out. Keble.
• SEDUCER
  One who, or that which, seduces; specifically, one who prevails over the chastity of a woman by enticements and persuasions. He whose firm faith no reason could remove, Will melt before that soft seducer, love. Dryden.
• TEMPTING
  Adapted to entice or allure; attractive; alluring; seductive; enticing; as, tempting pleasures. -- Tempt"ing*ly, adv. -- Tempt"ing*ness, n.
• CAJOLE
  To deceive with flattery or fair words; to wheedle. I am not about to cajole or flatter you into a reception of my views. F. W. Robertson. Syn. -- To flatter; wheedle; delude; coax; entrap. (more info) hence, to amuse with idle talk, to flatter,
• REDEEM
  Hence, to rescue and deliver from the bondage of sin and the penalties of God's violated law. Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us. Gal. iii. 13. 5. To make good by performing fully; to fulfill; as, to redeem
• ATTRACTABILITY
  The quality or fact of being attractable. Sir W. Jones.
• TRANSPORTAL
  Transportation; the act of removing from one locality to another. "The transportal of seeds in the wool or fur of quadrupeds." Darwin.
• UNEMPLOYMENT
  Quality or state of being not employed; -- used esp. in economics, of the condition of various social classes when temporarily thrown out of employment, as those engaged for short periods, those whose trade is decaying, and those least competent.
• IMPREVENTABLE
  Not preventable; invitable.
• METEMPTOSIS
  The suppression of a day in the calendar to prevent the date of the new moon being set a day too late, or the suppression of the bissextile day once in 134 years. The opposite to this is the proemptosis, or the addition of a day every 330 years,
• COMPROMISE
  promise to abide by the decision of an arbiter, fr. compromittere to 1. A mutual agreement to refer matters in dispute to the decision of arbitrators. Burrill. 2. A settlement by arbitration or by mutual consent reached by concession on both
• DISAGREEABLENESS
  The state or quality of being; disagreeable; unpleasantness.
• REENGAGEMENT
  A renewed or repeated engagement.
• UNPROMISE
  To revoke or annul, as a promise. Chapman.
• REENLISTMENT
  A renewed enlistment.
• AVOUCHMENT
  The act of avouching; positive declaration. Milton.
• EXSTIPULATE
  Having no stipules. Martyn.
• MISTRANSPORT
  To carry away or mislead wrongfully, as by passion. Bp. Hall.