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charming

Something charming is usually pleasing or delightful. More rarely, it can be something supernatural.

Charms are magical objects and something charming puts you under its spell. In most cases, we mean that only figuratively — if you spent a charming evening with friends, it means their company was so wonderful it was almost enchanting. Charming people have a special, almost magical way of making others like them. But if you're talking about a charming witch, you better watch out for her sorcery and magic tricks.

PRIMARY MEANINGS OF: charming

1
adj
pleasing or delighting
2
adj
possessing or using or characteristic of or appropriate to supernatural powers
FULL DEFINITIONS OF: charming
1

adj pleasing or delighting

“endowed with charming manners”
“a charming little cottage”
“a charming personality”
Synonyms
pleasing
giving pleasure and satisfaction
2

adj possessing or using or characteristic of or appropriate to supernatural powers

charming incantations”
Synonyms:
magic, magical, sorcerous, witching, wizard, wizardly
supernatural
not existing in nature or subject to explanation according to natural laws; not physical or material
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