Approaching vs Attractive - What's the difference?
approaching | attractive |
That approaches or approach.
Nearly.
* 2011 March 16, , Opinion:
The act of coming closer; an approach.
* 2011 , Lance J. Rips, Lines of Thought: Central Concepts in Cognitive Psychology (page 168)
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.
As adjectives the difference between approaching and attractive
is that approaching is that approaches or approach while attractive is causing attraction; having the quality of attracting by inherent force.As an adverb approaching
is nearly.As a verb approaching
is .As a noun approaching
is the act of coming closer; an approach.approaching
English
Adjective
(-)- the approaching armies
Adverb
(-)There's more to fear from nature than nuclear power,
- The evacuation of approaching 200,000 people, along with reports of high radiation levels, of burning spent fuel, and apocalyptic footage of plumes of debris erupting from the stricken plant, will revive a question that seemed to have been retreating from global concerns: how safe is nuclear power?
Verb
(head)- The army was approaching from the north.
Noun
(en noun)- But we can also take a more analytical attitude to these displays, interpreting the movements as no more than approachings , touchings, and departings with no implication that one shape caused the other to move.
attractive
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- That's a very attractive offer.
- He is an attractive fellow with a trim figure.