appealing (to)
verb
as in begging
to make a request to (someone) in an earnest or urgent manner when supplies at the food bank ran desperately low, officials appealed to the public for some much-needed replacements Synonyms & Similar Words
Relevance
- begging
- petitioning
- calling on
- pleading (to)
- calling upon
- praying
- asking
- beseeching
- imploring
- conjuring
- impetrating
- entreating
- supplicating
- besieging
- importuning
- requiring
- soliciting
- requesting
- invoking
- compelling
- suing
- desiring
- sponging
- cadging
- forcing
- mooching
- bludging
- insisting
- demanding
- coercing
- claiming
- commanding
Antonyms & Near Antonyms
- suggesting
- implying
- gratifying
- satisfying
- intimating
- hinting
- pleasing
- comforting
- appeasing
- consoling
- pacifying
- obliging
- conciliating
- placating
- contenting
- mollifying
- quieting