BEWITCHING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does bewitching mean? 

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

1. capturing interest as if by a spell

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• BEWITCHING (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Capturing interest as if by a spell

Synonyms:

bewitching; captivating; enchanting; enthralling; entrancing; fascinating

Context example:

a fascinating woman

Similar:

attractive (pleasing to the eye or mind especially through beauty or charm)

 Context examples 

You will not thank me for detaining you from the bewitching converse of that young lady, whose bright eyes are also upbraiding me.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

For a little while Emma persevered in her silence; but beginning to apprehend the bewitching flattery of that letter might be too powerful, she thought it best to say, (...)

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

“It never could have been bewitching, Davy. Now I know it wasn't!”

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Neptune is now in your seventh house of marriage and committed love, so you could receive a bewitching proposal for marriage this month (or you may propose), or you may marry.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

She was positively bewitching, and, withal, sweetly spirituelle, if not saintly.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

My prince must be tall, and slender, and dark—a graceful, bewitching prince.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Such confidence, powerful in its own warmth, and bewitching in the wit which often expressed it, must have been enough for Anne; but Lady Russell saw it very differently.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

Oh, God!—holding out her hand to me, asking me for an explanation, with those bewitching eyes fixed in such speaking solicitude on my face!—and Sophia, jealous as the devil on the other hand, looking all that was—Well, it does not signify; it is over now.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

From the first casting of the parts to the epilogue it was all bewitching, and there were few who did not wish to have been a party concerned, or would have hesitated to try their skill.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

“It was never bewitching,” she said, laughing.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)