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charming

2 syllables
adjectivenoun
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As an adjective, charming means pleasant, charismatic. As a noun, it means the casting of a magical charm.

Meanings of charming

5 meanings

adjective

  1. Pleasant, charismatic.

  2. Delightful in a playful way which avoids responsibility or seriousness, as if attracting through a magical charm.

  3. Pleasing or delighting

    “endowed with charming manners”

    “a charming little cottage”

    “a charming personality”

  4. Possessing or using or characteristic of or appropriate to supernatural powers

    “charming incantations”

    “magic signs that protect against adverse influence”

    “a magical spell”

    Similar: magic, magical, sorcerous, witching, wizard, wizardly

verb

Present participle of charm

noun

  1. The casting of a magical charm.

Meanings from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0).

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Words that rhyme with charming

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