BEGUILED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does beguiled mean? 

• BEGUILED (adjective)
  The adjective BEGUILED has 1 sense:

1. filled with wonder and delight

  Familiarity information: BEGUILED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BEGUILED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Filled with wonder and delight

Synonyms:

beguiled; captivated; charmed; delighted; enthralled; entranced

Similar:

enchanted (influenced as by charms or incantations)

 Context examples 

That a man of the world, five-and-forty years of age, shrewd, honest, and acquainted with Courts, should be beguiled by such crude and coarse homage, amazed me, as it did all who knew him; but you who have seen much of life do not need to be told how often the strongest and noblest nature has its one inexplicable weakness, showing up the more obviously in contrast to the rest, as the dark stain looks the fouler upon the whitest sheet.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

As the omnibus contained only one other passenger, a sleepy old lady, Amy pocketed her veil and beguiled the tedium of the way by trying to find out where all her money had gone to.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)