CHARMED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does charmed mean? 

• CHARMED (adjective)
  The adjective CHARMED has 2 senses:

1. strongly attracted

2. filled with wonder and delight

  Familiarity information: CHARMED used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CHARMED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Strongly attracted

Synonyms:

captivated; charmed

Similar:

loving (feeling or showing love and affection)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Filled with wonder and delight

Synonyms:

beguiled; captivated; charmed; delighted; enthralled; entranced

Similar:

enchanted (influenced as by charms or incantations)

 Context examples 

I am charmed, Copperfield, said Mr. Micawber, let me assure you, with Miss Wickfield.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

There was one in the room; Bessie went and opened it, and then asked me to sit down and give her a tune: I played a waltz or two, and she was charmed.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

I could imagine he was speaking the thoughts of his own mind as he read to me, and his voice, reverberating deeply and mournfully in the confined cabin, charmed and held me.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

So he sat at table, perturbed by his own unfitness and at the same time charmed by all that went on about him.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

They were too handsome themselves to dislike any woman for being so too, and were almost as much charmed as their brothers with her lively dark eye, clear brown complexion, and general prettiness.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

Once she felt that he was looking at herself, observing her altered features, perhaps, trying to trace in them the ruins of the face which had once charmed him; and once she knew that he must have spoken of her; she was hardly aware of it, till she heard the answer; but then she was sure of his having asked his partner whether Miss Elliot never danced?

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

Holmes was so charmed with one of them that he insisted on drawing it in his notebook, broke his pencil, had to borrow one from our host and finally borrowed a knife to sharpen his own.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

She was thinner and had lost much of that heavenly vivacity that had before charmed me; but her gentleness and soft looks of compassion made her a more fit companion for one blasted and miserable as I was.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

The instrument was unlocked, every body prepared to be charmed, and Marianne, who sang very well, at their request went through the chief of the songs which Lady Middleton had brought into the family on her marriage, and which perhaps had lain ever since in the same position on the pianoforte, for her ladyship had celebrated that event by giving up music, although by her mother's account, she had played extremely well, and by her own was very fond of it.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

She must allow him to be still frequently coming to look; any thing less would certainly have been too little in a lover; and he was ready at the smallest intermission of the pencil, to jump up and see the progress, and be charmed.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)