Definitions For Appeal

noun

  • (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
  • Attractiveness that interests or pleases or stimulates
  • Request for a sum of money
  • Earnest or urgent request
  • A quality that causes people to like someone or something
  • A serious request for help, support, etc.
  • An attempt to make someone do or accept something as right or proper by saying things that are directed at a person's feelings, attitudes, etc.

verb

  • Request earnestly (something from somebody); ask for aid or protection
  • Cite as an authority; resort to
  • Be attractive to
  • Take a court case to a higher court for review
  • Challenge (a decision)
  • To be liked by someone : to be pleasing or attractive tosomeone
  • To ask for something (such as help or support) in a serious way
  • To try to make someone do or accept something as right or proper by saying things that are directed at a person's feelings, attitudes, etc.

Is Appeals a Scrabble Word?

Words With Friends YES
Scrabble US YES
Scrabble UK YES
English International (SOWPODS) YES
Scrabble Global YES
Enable1 Dictionary YES

Points in Different Games

Scrabble
11
Words with Friends
14

The word Appeal is worth 11 points in Scrabble and 14 points in Words with Friends

Examples of Appeal in a Sentence

  • Her jokes are quickly losing their appeal.
  • The wide appeal of the artist's work
  • His appeals to his father for money were ignored.
  • Music that appeals to a wide variety of people
  • The government appealed for calm.
  • Desperate people who are appealing for help

Synonyms for Appeal

Antonyms for Appeals

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