appeals

Meanings

Noun

• earnest or urgent request
• attractiveness that interests or pleases or stimulates
• (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
• request for a sum of money
• plural of appeal

Verb

• take a court case to a higher court for review
• request earnestly (something from somebody); ask for aid or protection
• be attractive to
  • "The idea of a vacation appeals to me"
• challenge (a decision)
• cite as an authority; resort to
• third-person singular simple present indicative of appeal

Synonyms

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

Antonyms

repel