Word Meanings - CHARM - Book Publishers vocabulary database

for casmen, akin to Skr. çasman, çasa, a laudatory song, from a root 1. A melody; a song. With charm of earliest birds. Milton. Free liberty to chant our charms at will. Spenser. 2. A word or combination of words sung or spoken in the practice

Additional info about word: CHARM

for casmen, akin to Skr. çasman, çasa, a laudatory song, from a root 1. A melody; a song. With charm of earliest birds. Milton. Free liberty to chant our charms at will. Spenser. 2. A word or combination of words sung or spoken in the practice of magic; a magical combination of words, characters, etc.; an incantation. My high charms work. Shak. 3. That which exerts an irresistible power to please and attract; that which fascinates; any alluring quality. Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul. Pope. The charm of beauty's powerful glance. Milton. 4. Anything worn for its supposed efficacy to the wearer in averting ill or securing good fortune. 5. Any small decorative object worn on the person, as a seal, a key, a silver whistle, or the like. Bunches of charms are often worn at the watch chain. Syn. - Spell; incantation; conjuration; enchantment; fascination; attraction.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of CHARM)

• Attract
• Influence
• induce
• dispose
• incline
• tempt
• prompt
• allure
• charm
• fascinate
• invite
• entice
• Attraction
• Inducement
• influence
• adduction
• inclination
• disposition
• beauty
• allurement
• Bewitch
• Enchant
• captivate
• entrance
• Enamor
• Captivate
• enslave
• endear
• bewitch
• enchain
• Enrapture
• Beatify
• enchant
• transport
• attract
• ravish

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of CHARM)

• Trend
• diverge
• ascend
• deter
• rise
• indispose
• disincline
• Slave
• prevent
• dissuade

Related words: (words related to CHARM)

• INVITER
  One who, or that which, invites.
• DISPOSEMENT
  Disposal. Goodwin.
• PROMPT-BOOK
  The book used by a prompter of a theater.
• RAVISHER
  One who ravishes .
• ASCENDANCY; ASCENDANCE
  See ASCENDENCY
• INDUCER
  One who, or that which, induces or incites.
• PREVENTATIVE
  That which prevents; -- incorrectly used instead of preventive.
• ADDUCTION
  The action by which the parts of the body are drawn towards its (more info) 1. The act of adducing or bringing forward. An adduction of facts gathered from various quarters. I. Taylor.
• 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.
• 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.
• TRANSPORTING
  That transports; fig., ravishing. Your transporting chords ring out. Keble.
• TEMPTING
  Adapted to entice or allure; attractive; alluring; seductive; enticing; as, tempting pleasures. -- Tempt"ing*ly, adv. -- Tempt"ing*ness, n.
• ASCENDENCY
  Governing or controlling influence; domination; power. An undisputed ascendency. Macaulay. Custom has an ascendency over the understanding. Watts. Syn. -- Control; authority; influence; sway; dominion; prevalence; domination.
• ATTRACTABILITY
  The quality or fact of being attractable. Sir W. Jones.
• TRANSPORTAL
  Transportation; the act of removing from one locality to another. "The transportal of seeds in the wool or fur of quadrupeds." Darwin.
• TRANSPORTABILITY
  The quality or state of being transportable.
• DISPOSE
  Etym: 1. To distribute and put in place; to arrange; to set in order; as, to dispose the ships in the form of a crescent. Who hath disposed the whole world Job xxxiv. 13. All ranged in order and disposed with grace. Pope. The rest themselves in
• DISPOSEDNESS
  The state of being disposed or inclined; inclination; propensity.
• ATTRACTILE
  Having power to attract.
• PROMPTLY
  In a prompt manner.
• IMPREVENTABLE
  Not preventable; invitable.
• 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,
• MISTRANSPORT
  To carry away or mislead wrongfully, as by passion. Bp. Hall.
• 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).
• IMPREVENTABILITY
  The state or quality of being impreventable.
• INDETERMINABLE
  Not determinable; impossible to be determined; not to be definitely known, ascertained, defined, or limited. -- In`de*ter"mi*na*bly, adv.