0 past simple and past participle of attract
1 (of people, things, places, etc.) to pull or draw someone or something towards them, by the qualities they have, especially good ones:
These flowers are brightly coloured in order to attract butterflies.
The government is trying to attract industry to the area (= to persuade people to place their industry there).
Her ideas have attracted a lot of attention/criticism in the scientific community.
I like him, but I'm not physically/sexually attracted to him.
The idea of becoming a journalist attracted her.
My parents were attracted by the school's curriculum, which puts equal emphasis on artistic, practical, and intellectual subjects.
What attracted you to this role?
Since light has no mass, Newton's equation predicts that it will not be attracted by gravity towards anything.
The project has attracted considerable criticism from the scientific community .
With its varied climate, the country attracts both winter and summer sports enthusiasts.
I tend to be attracted to complicated, sometimes unsympathetic characters.
The cold fusion claims of 1989, in contrast, attracted criticism that spilled over from the purely theoretic domain to the professional one.
This group attracted some attention because of the presence of women and a child.
