CHARMING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does charming mean? 

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

1. pleasing or delighting

2. possessing or using or characteristic of or appropriate to supernatural powers

  Familiarity information: CHARMING used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CHARMING (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Pleasing or delighting

Context example:

a charming personality

Similar:

pleasing (giving pleasure and satisfaction)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Possessing or using or characteristic of or appropriate to supernatural powers

Synonyms:

charming; magic; magical; sorcerous; witching; wizard; wizardly

Context example:

wizardly powers

Similar:

supernatural (not existing in nature or subject to explanation according to natural laws; not physical or material)

 Context examples 

Now, there was nothing so charming to her imagination as the unpretending comfort of a well-connected parsonage, something like Fullerton, but better: Fullerton had its faults, but Woodston probably had none.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

And his sisters are charming women.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

She had been at Bath the year before, and Lady Russell had heard her spoken of as a charming woman.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

That is why he is so charming and we all like him so much.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

I had a charming partner—pure, wise, modest: you can fancy I was a happy man.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Disputable, however, as might be the taste of such a termination, it was in itself a charming walk, and the view which closed it extremely pretty.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

Lucy came with me, and, enlivened by her charming presence, I made an excellent meal, and had a couple of glasses of the more than excellent port.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

“What a thoroughly good and charming wife she is, my dear Traddles!” said I, when she had gone away, laughing.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

The lady’s charming personality must not be permitted to warp our judgment.

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

“We have had a charming little breath of your beautiful Dartmoor air.”

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