adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a good/attractive alternative
▪ If you don’t want curtains, blinds are a good alternative.
an attractive feature
▪ The house had many attractive features, notably the large garden.
an attractive option (=one that sounds or is good)
▪ If time is short, taking the car to northern France is an attractive option.
an attractive proposition
▪ Setting up your own business is a very attractive proposition.
an attractive/handsome/pleasing etc appearance
▪ Large blue eyes set in a long thin face give him a striking and attractive appearance.
attractive
▪ A journey of that length was not an attractive prospect.
physically attractive
▪ She found him physically attractive.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
as
▪ When a man as attractive as Crilly makes an attempt to leave the circle, the girls get bothered.
▪ But surely some one who could make a column as attractive as this one would have no trouble making another forty-seven?
▪ Printing and presentation should be as attractive as possible - after all the library is an attractive place isn't it?
▪ For recession-weary washers, lower bills may sound just as attractive as greener laundry - as it were.
▪ It can therefore be seen that these inducements are not quite as attractive as they seem at first sight.
▪ On the other hand, one of the things that marks an emerging market as attractive is access to large markets.
▪ One was that it might not be as attractive as some of the stronger currencies and so its general acceptability might suffer.
extremely
▪ She was also by all accounts extremely attractive.
▪ Water is extremely attractive as a source of both propellants and life-support materials.
▪ However, she gives warning that this can still be misleading, especially if the interest includes an extremely attractive bonus.
▪ On the positive side, McCain, his wife, Cindy, and his children make an extremely attractive family.
▪ He was extremely attractive, with thick hair and clear eyes and a scattering of freckles.
▪ This species is extremely attractive but suitable only for large tanks where the leaves coil decoratively under water.
▪ Lounge bar and restaurant offering a first-class menu. Extremely attractive locality.
▪ Comments: An extremely attractive, hardy, easy-to-grow species.
how
▪ He seemed unaware of how attractive he was to women.
▪ She wanted to flirt and dance and find out how attractive she was to other men.
▪ If you want to employ an attractive secretary how attractive does she have to be?
▪ The house stands for oral greediness and how attractive it is to give in to it.
▪ She knew now how attractive Miguel could be when he wanted to be, and she knew he could manipulate her feelings.
▪ His eyes sparkled with delight as her mannerisms and voice reminded him of just how attractive he found Englishwomen.
▪ I could see how attractive was the chance it offered him to leave Reine, and he deserved it.
less
▪ Normally rising interest rates will depress the price of gilts by making their fixed interest payments less attractive to investors.
▪ Teen-age girls cut their hair and dressed in baggy clothes to be less attractive to the mysterious killer.
▪ In some cases this may make the prospect of an award less attractive.
▪ Why is Congress trying to make the United States a less attractive destination?
▪ The general science courses may have been more suited but have proved less attractive.
▪ It is small wonder that the idea of setting sail for an un-known land grew less and less attractive to him.
▪ I am sure it will but I also think that it will take sales away from the bigger, but less attractive 5-Series.
▪ Among themselves, economists usually agree that welfare payments and unemployment insurance make getting a job less attractive.
more
▪ A similar ear-marked tax for health could prove even more attractive.
▪ But replacing it with something more attractive is going to cost a lot more than anyone anticipated.
▪ A rich soil soon becomes home to rampant weeds which smother less competitive, more attractive plants.
▪ Improvements to public infrastructure were emphasized as a means of making depressed areas more attractive to private industry.
▪ X and make it standard with Solaris 2.1 and 2. x, making that stuff more attractive.
▪ Consider a group of guys married to women more attractive than they are.
▪ The taxing of consumption does make current saving more attractive.
▪ During periods of recovery, stocks are usually more attractive investments because rising economic activity increases companies' earnings.
most
▪ In general, what people find most stimulating and most attractive is a bit different but not too different from what they know already.
▪ He has examined a number of competing fusion schemes, and found helium-3 / deuterium fusion to be the most attractive.
▪ The Standards looked most attractive, and operated throughout the summer season in normal service until 1966, when they were withdrawn.
▪ Indeed, many homosexual actors and models are among the men regarded as most attractive to women.
▪ Mr Wood's Fossils is now one of Edinburgh's most attractive specialist shops.
▪ But it also could mean that he is the most attractive player the Suns have to trade.
▪ It was nice to hear the radio 5 commentator say that Leeds play one of the most attractive styles of football around.
▪ The cocktail and long and short evening dresses I saw, were most attractive and cleverly designed.
particularly
▪ The turning to the legs is particularly attractive here.
▪ And the hours are flexible, which makes it particularly attractive to women who have family responsibilities.
▪ Until men had learned how to cut diamonds, they were not particularly attractive crystals.
▪ A large canvas of poppies provides a particularly attractive example of this aspect of her work.
▪ Why should emerging markets be particularly attractive?
▪ The crevices where the spurs were cut back each year were particularly attractive hiding places for mealy bugs.
▪ The architecture and culture feel pleasantly familiar and the friendly atmosphere makes Tenerife particularly attractive.
▪ She was a very strong-willed child, and not a particularly attractive one.
so
▪ What was so attractive about it?
▪ In fact, it may be this polychrome character that makes pentecostalism so attractive to so many people.
▪ If you actually show people in much greater need, young adults, they're not so attractive.
▪ Looked at this way, minus the polished eyes, her face was not so attractive.
▪ It was unfair for one man to be so attractive.
▪ That's why hedgehogs find gardens so attractive - they are excellent sources of food.
▪ But the Cotswold valley that made the property so attractive will soon be the route of a new bypass.
▪ Now the choice is so wide and the packaging so attractive that most children are delighted.
very
▪ And at 3.15 on Tuesdays and Thursdays it's very attractive indeed.
▪ She loved his looks, and when he stood up to her, she found him very attractive.
▪ Voice over Female speaker Children like animals and there's no doubt this is a very attractive one.
▪ I had a girl in Hong Kong, Jim said. Very attractive and intelligent young woman.
▪ The outer edges were rounded and smoothed with a small edging trowel, which gives a very attractive finish.
▪ She was smart, energetic, very attractive, and turning forty.
▪ Logistic considerations make the Moon a very attractive base of operations if ice is abundant in the lunar polar regions.
■ NOUN
alternative
▪ Supposedly few recruits to the field will choose to enter into these basic and difficult studies if there are attractive alternatives.
▪ Since the recent purchase of a block of furnished flatlets in Bridlington, Yorkshire, self-catering holidays have become an attractive alternative.
▪ Blinds are an attractive alternative to curtains, and there are many types available.
▪ It seems a highly attractive alternative to periodic sterling crises.
feature
▪ An additional attractive feature for savers was the fact that societies did not normally levy transactions charges on accounts.
▪ Yet market buildings, even when they are quite plain, are usually attractive features of a town.
▪ It is a very attractive feature and has only been known to dry up once in the summer of 1826.
▪ It is the autonomous nature of sole trading which is an attractive feature of this form of business enterprise.
▪ Provided the room is big enough, room divider doors are a practical solution and can be an attractive feature.
▪ She was sixteen-years-old but with her slim, petite figure and attractive features she could have passed for twenty.
▪ The generality and flexibility of such a procedure are a very attractive feature of the technology.
▪ A particularly attractive feature of the notation is its expressiveness.
girl
▪ As she stepped back to view the result, she realised that Martha was really a most attractive girl.
▪ She's a very attractive girl.
▪ She was also an attractive girl.
▪ Louisa, an attractive girl full of life was in service at Mapledurham.
▪ An attractive girl with a cheerful smile and laughing eyes was sitting at the cash register by the doorway.
▪ She used make-up and bleached her hair and was a very attractive girl.
▪ Besides, Liza was no longer the stunningly attractive girl she had been a year ago.
man
▪ Who are these two, these fiercely attractive men who want me to stick their needle in my arm?
▪ Then, when I tell him about some of the more attractive men at my current gym, he nods appreciatively.
▪ One is always tempted to save money by photographing locals, or the various attractive men and women one meets on holiday.
▪ An attractive man stands by the door, glasses and a brown mustache, reading Barbara Pym.
▪ The most attractive man in all Ireland, the girl in the shop had said, and perhaps he was.
▪ I try and meet the intellectual types at bookstores, but all the attractive men tend to congregate in the porno sections.
▪ He's a very attractive man who looks younger than his age so why the hang-up?
▪ Matthew Preston was an attractive man physically.
offer
▪ Having to move an offer deadline date backward due to a lack of attractive offers will place a vendor in a weak position.
▪ I am just sitting tight waiting for an attractive offer.
▪ Competition has hit a new high with many attractive offers in the run-up to Christmas.
option
▪ By applying a set of pragmatic guidelines to software choice a clearer picture of the more attractive options emerges.
▪ He said the stock market remains an attractive option.
▪ Despite this, arrest for questioning has quickly become an attractive option for the police.
▪ Prostitution is no longer an attractive option to ensure economic survival.
▪ Buying direct from a manufacturer often seems the most attractive option at first glance.
▪ Coupled with this expertise, lower costs make arbitration a very attractive option.
▪ For style, elegance and versatility, the Classico paving system from Marley is an attractive option.
▪ Intrapersonal conflict occurs in an individual where there are several equally attractive options but only one may be chosen.
proposition
▪ It is not an attractive proposition for independent power generation because it is difficult to finance.
▪ In theory, a star-driven period melodrama with top-notch production values should have been an attractive proposition for distributors.
▪ If hiring costs can be reduced by machines working longer, it could become an even more attractive proposition.
▪ By the end of the Regency period the pub was becoming a far more attractive proposition for the government, too.
▪ Costs and qualifications All-optical cabling is an attractive proposition.
▪ This was not an attractive proposition, but my idea of womanhood was hardly preferable.
▪ I can't feel that this music as presented here is an attractive proposition at full price.
▪ Relativism is not an attractive proposition to anyone, least of all philosophers, because everything becomes so uncertain and transitory.
woman
▪ I don't know how she's put up with it at times, because she's an attractive woman.
▪ In the next twelve months I went out with five spunky and attractive women.
▪ She was a small, attractive woman with red hair.
▪ I was greeted by a very attractive woman of about thirty.
▪ Not for her that studied aloofness which so many attractive women mistakenly affect.
▪ Goering had noted many times before that the fatter and more powerful he got, the more attractive women found him.
▪ He was an incredibly handsome man, Marianne a stunningly attractive woman.
▪ He could never resist doing that with an attractive woman.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ an attractive outfit
▪ an attractive personality
▪ He was a tall attractive man in his mid-forties.
▪ I don't find those body-builders with huge muscles attractive at all.
▪ I don't know what makes Jamie so attractive to women.
▪ Improvements to public infrastructure is one way of making depressed areas more attractive to private industry.
▪ It's enough for me that my husband thinks I'm sexually attractive.
▪ Lower rates have made other currencies, such as the dollar, more attractive.
▪ She's very nice but I don't really find her attractive.
▪ The houses were situated in an attractive spot, near the river.
▪ The interest rate makes these an attractive investment.
▪ The job pays well and you get a company car and 30 days holiday a year -- it's certainly an attractive offer.
▪ The staff includes many top scientists who left attractive jobs elsewhere to join the hard-driving CEO.
▪ This attractive book is an ideal gift for any young baseball fan.
▪ We've put together what we think is a very attractive package, including discounts, special offers, and free credit.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A resumption of dividend payments looks in store this year and the shares at 37p are attractive.
▪ An attractive verandah restaurant, open to the public, offers romantic àlacarte dining.
▪ Everything had been provided to make this room an attractive and restful setting for any guest.
▪ He seemed unaware of how attractive he was to women.
▪ She is only a skeleton, but she believes she is still alive and highly attractive.
▪ She was an attractive woman, but I never thought she had a human feeling in her.
▪ Still another way of promoting a more embracing gay culture is to make old age more attractive.