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BEGUILING
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Dictionary entry overview: What does beguiling mean?
• BEGUILING (adjective)
The adjective BEGUILING has 2 senses:
1. highly attractive and able to arouse hope or desire
2. misleading by means of pleasant or alluring methods
Familiarity information: BEGUILING used as an adjective is rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Highly attractive and able to arouse hope or desire
Synonyms:
alluring; beguiling; enticing; tempting
Context example:
a tempting invitation
Similar:
seductive (tending to entice into a desired action or state)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Misleading by means of pleasant or alluring methods
Context example:
taken in by beguiling tales of overnight fortunes
Similar:
dishonest; dishonorable (deceptive or fraudulent; disposed to cheat or defraud or deceive)
Context examples
His particular specialty is the beguiling of lonely ladies by playing upon their religious feelings, and his so-called wife, an Englishwoman named Fraser, is a worthy helpmate.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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