Seemly vs Appealing - What's the difference?
seemly | appealing | Related terms |
(of behavior) Appropriate; suited to the occasion or purpose; becoming.
* Shakespeare
* Hooker
Appropriately, fittingly.
* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , II.i:
Having appeal; attractive.
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The act of making an appeal.
* 1866 , Heros von Borcke, Memoirs of the Confederate War for independence
Seemly is a related term of appealing.
As adjectives the difference between seemly and appealing
is that seemly is (of behavior) appropriate; suited to the occasion or purpose; becoming while appealing is having appeal; attractive.As an adverb seemly
is appropriately, fittingly.As a verb appealing is
.As a noun appealing is
the act of making an appeal.seemly
English
Adjective
(er)- His behavior was seemly , as befits a gentleman.
- I am a woman, lacking wit / To make a seemly answer to such persons.
- Suspense of judgment and exercise of charity were safer and seemlier for Christian men than the hot pursuit of these controversies.
Synonyms
* appositeAntonyms
* unseemlyDerived terms
* * * seemlinessAdverb
(en adverb)- The great earthes wombe they open to the sky, / And with sad Cypresse seemely it embraue [...].
appealing
English
Adjective
(en adjective)citation, passage=Some of the most beautiful and thus appealing physical theories, including quantum electrodynamics and quantum gravity, have been dogged for decades by infinities that erupt when theorists try to prod their calculations into new domains. Getting rid of these nagging infinities has probably occupied far more effort than was spent in originating the theories.}}
citation, page= , passage=Those were all landmark moments to cherish. Just as appealing was the manner in which Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain and Milner cut swathes down either flank, albeit through flustered full-backs who had looked poorly positioned and horribly jittery from the start. }}
Derived terms
* appealinglyVerb
(head)Noun
(en noun)- The fair creature abandoned her position, and in the midst of her bitter tears and pathetic appealings , which my sense of duty alone enabled me to resist, I bore my prisoner off.