Flowers attract bees.
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Attract
//əˈtɹækt//
Synonyms for "attract" (89 found)
Ranked by relevance and common usage.
Closest matches (18)
Strong matches (27)
Related words (44)
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More general
8 entriesAntonyms
2 entriesSynonyms
2 entriesRelated terms
3 entriesderived
19 entriesShowing 16 of 19 words.
derived from
2 entriesdistinct from
1 entriesmanner of
1 entriesrelated to
17 entriesShowing 16 of 17 words.
similar
4 entriesTranslations
83 translations across 31 languages.
Ancient Greek
1 entries- ἐφέλκομαι verb (arouse interest)
Arabic
3 entries- اِجْتَذَبَ verb (pull without touching)
- جَذَبَ verb (pull without touching)
- لَفَتَ verb (pull without touching)
Bulgarian
2 entries- привличам verb (pull without touching)
- привличам verb (cause sexual excitement)
Catalan
2 entries- atreure verb (pull without touching)
- atreure verb (arouse interest)
Chinese Mandarin
4 entries- 勾引 verb (cause sexual excitement)
- 吸引 verb (pull without touching)
- 吸引 verb (arouse interest)
- 引誘 /引诱 verb (cause sexual excitement)
Czech
3 entries- přitahovat verb (pull without touching)
- přitahovat verb (arouse interest)
- přitahovat verb (cause sexual excitement)
Dutch
3 entries- aandacht trekken verb (arouse interest)
- aantrekken verb (pull without touching)
- aantrekken verb (cause sexual excitement)
Esperanto
2 entries- allogi verb (arouse interest)
- altiri verb (pull without touching)
Finnish
3 entries- houkutella verb (arouse interest)
- vetää puoleensa verb (pull without touching)
- viehättää verb (cause sexual excitement)
French
1 entries- attirer verb (pull without touching)
Galician
2 entries- atraer verb (pull without touching)
- excitar verb (cause sexual excitement)
Georgian
3 entries- მიზიდვა verb (pull without touching)
- მიზიდვა verb (arouse interest)
- მიზიდვა verb (cause sexual excitement)
German
1 entries- anziehen verb (pull without touching)
Greek
4 entries- έλκω verb (pull without touching)
- ελκύω verb (arouse interest)
- ελκύω verb (cause sexual excitement)
- προσελκύω verb (arouse interest)
Hungarian
3 entries- felkelti az érdeklődést verb (arouse interest)
- vonz verb (pull without touching)
- vonz verb (arouse interest)
Italian
4 entries- affascinare verb (cause sexual excitement)
- attirare verb (pull without touching)
- attrarre verb (arouse interest)
- sedurre verb (cause sexual excitement)
Japanese
3 entries- 引きつける verb (pull without touching)
- 引きつける verb (arouse interest)
- 引きつける verb (cause sexual excitement)
Korean
4 entries- 끌다 verb (pull without touching)
- 끌다 verb (arouse interest)
- 끌어들이다 verb (pull without touching)
- 당기다 verb (pull without touching)
Latin
1 entries- alliciō verb (pull without touching)
Lithuanian
1 entries- pritraukti verb (arouse interest)
Māori
3 entries- whakamanea verb (pull without touching)
- whakamanea verb (arouse interest)
- whakapoapoa verb (pull without touching)
Nepali
1 entries- तान्नु verb (arouse interest)
Polish
1 entries- pociągać verb (cause sexual excitement)
Portuguese
4 entries- atrair verb (pull without touching)
- atrair verb (arouse interest)
- atrair verb (cause sexual excitement)
- excitar verb (cause sexual excitement)
Romanian
2 entries- atrage verb (pull without touching)
- atrage verb (cause sexual excitement)
Russian
4 entries- привле́чь verb (arouse interest)
- привле́чь verb (cause sexual excitement)
- привлека́ть verb (arouse interest)
- привлека́ть verb (cause sexual excitement)
Scottish Gaelic
3 entries- tarraing verb (pull without touching)
- tarraing verb (arouse interest)
- tarraing verb (cause sexual excitement)
Spanish
3 entries- atraer verb (pull without touching)
- atraer verb (cause sexual excitement)
- llamar verb (arouse interest)
Swedish
2 entries- attrahera verb (pull without touching)
- locka verb (arouse interest)
Thai
3 entries- ดึงดูด verb (pull without touching)
- ดึงดูด verb (arouse interest)
- ดึงดูด verb (cause sexual excitement)
Ukrainian
3 entries- прив́аблювати verb (cause sexual excitement)
- приверта́ти verb (cause sexual excitement)
- притяга́ти verb (pull without touching)
Sample sentences
18 total sentences available.
I want to build my corporate site to attract customers.
Source: tatoeba (240026)
Children often cry just to attract attention.
Source: tatoeba (245921)
After business came to a halt, many bathhouses added new facilities, such as saunas and exercise equipment, in an effort to attract customers.
Source: tatoeba (267440)
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