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ENCHANTING
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Dictionary entry overview: What does enchanting mean?
• ENCHANTING (adjective)
The adjective ENCHANTING has 1 sense:
1. capturing interest as if by a spell
Familiarity information: ENCHANTING used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
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
Never was she so enchanting as at this time, when she recalled the sunshine of her smiles and spent them upon us.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
The superior hopes which gradually opened were so much the more enchanting.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
You may be invited to an enchanting event over that weekend.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
That afternoon lapsed in peace and harmony; and in the evening Bessie told me some of her most enchanting stories, and sang me some of her sweetest songs.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
What a form she had, what a face she had, what a graceful, variable, enchanting manner!
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
This day will be enchanting, and happily, the transiting moon will help love along by gliding through the divine-for-Scorpio sign of Pisces.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
The prospect of marrying a Christian and remaining in a country where women were allowed to take a rank in society was enchanting to her.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
Working together, these two planets have the power to bring you to magical, enchanting social settings.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
My spirits were elevated by the enchanting appearance of nature; the past was blotted from my memory, the present was tranquil, and the future gilded by bright rays of hope and anticipations of joy.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
The last week of February is set to be quite enchanting for you, and it seems certain you will fly to a distant point to be there.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
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