attractive
adjective
providing pleasure or delight, especially in appearance or manner; pleasing; charming; alluring.
unattractiveness
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a word derived from
attractive.
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a word derived from
attractiveness.
attractivenessnounthe quality of being pleasing, charming, or alluring, especially in appearance or manner: floral arrangements judged on quality and attractiveness.
Example Sentences
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“My date drop was chopped,” one student wrote, using a slang term for unattractiveness.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 10, 2026
Opal Stacie, by contrast, witnessed firsthand how young children are socialized to believe that fatness and unattractiveness are synonymous.
From Salon ● Dec. 27, 2022
"The number of shares and amount of shareholder capital that companies spend on this shows the inefficiency and unattractiveness of the Japanese market."
From Reuters ● Nov. 10, 2021
Not only do I not find men attractive, the relative attractive or unattractiveness of a man is usually not even something my brain considers.
From Slate ● Aug. 25, 2021
If it was not so, the queen's haunting consciousness of her unattractiveness must have been aggravated by the disappointment of her hopes, and she may have tortured herself with jealousy and suspicion.
From The Reign of Mary Tudor by Rhys, Ernest
