INVITING Synonyms

• able to attract interest or draw favorable attention

• (of characters in literature or drama) evoking empathic or sympathetic feelings

• pleasing to the eye or mind especially through beauty or charm

• having the properties of a magnet; the ability to draw or pull

• having power to arouse interest

• capturing interest as if by a spell

• pleasing or delighting

• possessing or using or characteristic of or appropriate to supernatural powers

• highly attractive and able to arouse hope or desire

• favorable to life and growth

• disposed to treat guests and strangers with cordiality and generosity

• having an open mind

• tending to entice into a desired action or state

• very cordial

• increase the likelihood of

• express the need or desire for

• make a request or demand for something to somebody

• direct or put; seek an answer to

• consider obligatory; request and expect

• address a question to and expect an answer from

• require as useful, just, or proper

• make a date

• require or ask for as a price or condition

• ask for or request earnestly

• an authoritative direction or instruction to do something

• an attempt to get something

• a formal proposal to buy at a specified price

• (bridge) the number of tricks a bridge player is willing to contract to make

• propose a payment

• invoke upon

• ask for or request earnestly

• make a demand, as for a card or a suit or a show of hands

• make a serious effort to attain something

• ask someone in a friendly way to do something

• contribute to the progress or growth of

• inspire with confidence; give hope or courage to

• spur on

• ask for or request earnestly

• call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses)

• evoke or provoke to appear or occur

• provide the needed stimulus for

• annoy continually or chronically

• get something; come into possession of

• receive a specified treatment (abstract)

• register (perceptual input)

• go through (mental or physical states or experiences)

• express willingness to have in one's home or environs

• accept as true or valid

• bid welcome to; greet upon arrival

• convert into sounds or pictures

• experience as a reaction

• have or give a reception

• receive as a retribution or punishment

• partake of the Holy Eucharist sacrament

• regard favorably or with disapproval

• a formal message requesting something that is submitted to an authority

• the verbal act of requesting

• express the need or desire for

• ask (a person) to do something

• inquire for (information)

• dispose or incline or entice to

• provoke someone to do something through (often false or exaggerated) promises or persuasion

• give rise to a desire by being attractive or inviting

• induce into action by using one's charm

• try to seduce

• try presumptuously

• ask to enter