appeal

Meanings

• earnest or urgent request
  • "an appeal for help"
  • "an appeal to the public to keep calm"
• attractiveness that interests or pleases or stimulates
  • "his smile was part of his appeal to her"
• (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"
• request for a sum of money
  • "an appeal to raise money for starving children"
• take a court case to a higher court for review
  • "He was found guilty but appealed immediately"
• request earnestly (something from somebody); ask for aid or protection
  • "appeal to somebody for help"
• be attractive to
  • "The idea of a vacation appeals to me"
• challenge (a decision)
  • "She appealed the verdict"
• cite as an authority; resort to
  • "I appealed to the law of 1900"

Synonyms

appealingness, attract, charm, collection, entreaty, ingathering, invoke, prayer, solicitation