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Word Meanings - CAPTIVATING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Having power to captivate or cham; fascinating; as, captivating smiles. -- Cap"tiva`ting*ly, adv.

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  • INVITER
    One who, or that which, invites.
  • BEAUTIFUL
    Having the qualities which constitute beauty; pleasing to the sight or the mind. A circle is more beautiful than a square; a square is more beautiful than a parallelogram. Lord Kames. Syn. -- Handsome; elegant; lovely; fair; charming; graceful;
  • WINNOW
    comp.), winpi-skauro a fan, L. ventilare to fan, to winnow; cf. L. wannus a fan for winnowing, G. wanne, OHG. wanna. . See Wind moving 1. To separate, and drive off, the chaff from by means of wind; to fan; as, to winnow grain. Ho winnoweth barley
  • CAPTIVATE
    1. To take prisoner; to capture; to subdue. Their woes whom fortune captivates. Shak. 2. To acquire ascendancy over by reason of some art or attraction; to fascinate; to charm; as, Cleopatra captivated Antony; the orator captivated all hearts.
  • TEMPTER
    One who tempts or entices; especially, Satan, or the Devil, regarded as the great enticer to evil. "Those who are bent to do wickedly will never want tempters to urge them on." Tillotson. So glozed the Tempter, and his proem tuned. Milton.
  • TEMPTING
    Adapted to entice or allure; attractive; alluring; seductive; enticing; as, tempting pleasures. -- Tempt"ing*ly, adv. -- Tempt"ing*ness, n.
  • INVITRIFIABLE
    Not admitting of being vitrified, or converted into glass. Kirwan.
  • ENTICING
    That entices; alluring.
  • WINNINGNESS
    The quality or state of being winning. "Winningness in style." J. Morley.
  • ATTRACTIVE
    1. Having the power or quality of attracting or drawing; as, the attractive force of bodies. Sir I. Newton. 2. Attracting or drawing by moral influence or pleasurable emotion; alluring; inviting; pleasing. "Attractive graces." Milton. "Attractive
  • PLEASANT-TONGUED
    Of pleasing speech.
  • INTERESTED
    1. Having the attention engaged; having emotion or passion excited; as, an interested listener. 2. Having an interest; concerned in a cause or in consequences; liable to be affected or prejudiced; as, an interested witness.
  • WINNER
    One who wins, or gains by success in competition, contest, or gaming.
  • PLEASANTNESS
    The state or quality of being pleasant.
  • CHARMLESS
    Destitute of charms. Swift.
  • WINNOWING
    The act of one who, or that which, winnows.
  • WINNARD
    The redwing.
  • ENTICEMENT
    1. The act or practice of alluring or tempting; as, the enticements of evil companions. 2. That which entices, or incites to evil; means of allurement; alluring object; as, an enticement to sin. Syn. -- Allurement; attraction; temptation;
  • ALLURANCE
    Allurement.
  • CHARMER
    1. One who charms, or has power to charm; one who uses the power of enchantment; a magician. Deut. xviii. 11. 2. One who delights and attracts the affections.
  • DISINTERESTING
    Uninteresting. "Disinteresting passages." Bp. Warburton.
  • METEMPTOSIS
    The suppression of a day in the calendar to prevent the date of the new moon being set a day too late, or the suppression of the bissextile day once in 134 years. The opposite to this is the proemptosis, or the addition of a day every 330 years,
  • DISAGREEABLENESS
    The state or quality of being; disagreeable; unpleasantness.
  • REENGAGEMENT
    A renewed or repeated engagement.
  • AUTHENTICITY
    1. The quality of being authentic or of established authority for truth and correctness. 2. Genuineness; the quality of being genuine or not corrupted from the original. Note: In later writers, especially those on the evidences of Christianity,
  • CONVENTICLING
    Belonging or going to, or resembling, a conventicle. Conventicling schools . . . set up and taught secretly by fanatics. South.
  • UNINTERESTED
    1. Not interested; not having any interest or property in; having nothing at stake; as, to be uninterested in any business. 2. Not having the mind or the passions engaged; as, uninterested in a discourse or narration.
  • MENTICULTURAL
    Of or pertaining to mental culture; serving to improve or strengthen the mind.
  • APPRENTICESHIP
    1. The service or condition of an apprentice; the state in which a person is gaining instruction in a trade or art, under legal agreement. 2. The time an apprentice is serving (sometimes seven years, as from the age of fourteen to twenty-one).
  • TWINNER
    One who gives birth to twins; a breeder of twins. Tusser.
  • IDENTICAL
    1. The same; the selfsame; the very same; not different; as, the identical person or thing. I can not remember a thing that happened a year ago, without a conviction . . . that I, the same identical person who now remember that event, did then
  • BECHARM
    To charm; to captivate.
  • CONTEMPTIBLY
    In a contemptible manner.

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