Word Meanings - CHARMING - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Pleasing the mind or senses in a high degree; delighting; fascinating; attractive. How charming is divine philosophy. Milton. Syn. - Enchanting; bewitching; captivating; enrapturing; alluring; fascinating; delightful; pleasurable; graceful; lovely;
Additional info about word: CHARMING
Pleasing the mind or senses in a high degree; delighting; fascinating; attractive. How charming is divine philosophy. Milton. Syn. - Enchanting; bewitching; captivating; enrapturing; alluring; fascinating; delightful; pleasurable; graceful; lovely; amiable; pleasing; winning. -- Charm"ing*ly, adv. -- Charm"ing*ness, n.
Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of CHARMING)
- Amiable
- Lovable
- good
- kind
- benevolent
- charitable
- delectable
- engaging
- fascinating
- agreeable
- lovely
- pleading
- charming
- attractive
- Attractive
- Winning
- alluring
- tempting
- inviting
- captivating
- enticing
- interesting
- pleasant
- beautiful
- Captivating
- Charming
- bewitching
- seductive
- Lovely
- lovable
- enchanting
- pleasing
- delightful
- Prepossessing
- winning
- taking
Related words: (words related to CHARMING)
- 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; - TAKING
1. Apt to take; alluring; attracting. Subtile in making his temptations most taking. Fuller. 2. Infectious; contageous. Beau. & Fl. -- Tak"ing*ly, adv. -- Tak"ing*ness, n. - 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 - PLEADINGS
The mutual pleas and replies of the plaintiff and defendant, or written statements of the parties in support of their claims, proceeding from the declaration of the plaintiff, until issue is joined, and the question made to rest on some - AMIABLENESS
The quality of being amiable; amiability. - 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. - CHARITABLENESS
The quality of being charitable; the exercise of charity. - TEMPTING
Adapted to entice or allure; attractive; alluring; seductive; enticing; as, tempting pleasures. -- Tempt"ing*ly, adv. -- Tempt"ing*ness, n. - AMIABLE
friend, fr. amare to love. The meaning has been influenced by F. aimable, L. amabilis lovable, fr. amare to love. Cf. Amicable, 1. Lovable; lovely; pleasing. So amiable a prospect. Sir T. Herbert. 2. Friendly; kindly; sweet; gracious; - BENEVOLENT
Having a disposition to do good; possessing or manifesting love to mankind, and a desire to promote their prosperity and happiness; disposed to give to good objects; kind; charitable. -- Be*nev"o*lent*ly, adv. Syn. -- Benevolent, Beneficent. - PLEADINGLY
In a pleading manner. - INVITRIFIABLE
Not admitting of being vitrified, or converted into glass. Kirwan. - BEWITCHING
Having power to bewitch or fascinate; enchanting; captivating; charming. -- Be*witch"ing*ly, adv. -- Be*witch"ing*ness, n. - 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 - PLEASER
One who pleases or gratifies. - BEWITCHERY
The power of bewitching or fascinating; bewitchment; charm; fascination. There is a certain bewitchery or fascination in words. South. - 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. - UNMISTAKABLE
Incapable of being mistaken or misunderstood; clear; plain; obvious; evident. -- Un`mis*tak"a*bly, adv. - 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. - LEAVE-TAKING
Taking of leave; parting compliments. Shak. - MENTICULTURAL
Of or pertaining to mental culture; serving to improve or strengthen the mind. - COUNTERPLEAD
To plead the contrary of; to plead against; to deny. - 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). - MISTAKING
An error; a mistake. Shak. - TWINNER
One who gives birth to twins; a breeder of twins. Tusser.