bewitching

UK/bəˈwɪt͡ʃɪŋ/US/bəˈwɪt͡ʃɪŋ/

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Bewitching means so charming that you cannot look away. A bewitching smile, bewitching music, utterly bewitching.

It is warmer and more old-fashioned than charming and is used most of faces and of performances. The witch in it is literal, since the word first meant put under a spell.

Definitions of bewitching

1adjectivebewitchingSo charming that you cannot look away.C1
“The singer's bewitching voice held the whole audience silent.”

bewitching is a quality.

Where it comes from

From bewitch + -ing.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practise this word

bewitching in the wild

Chacornac on 6 April 1855, and named after Circe, the bewitching queen of Aeaea island in Greek mythology.
34 Circe
"bewitching spirit") is a Japanese word that is generally synonymous with the English term fairy.
Yōsei
A preview of "Fay bewitching the Moon" was released to the members who were part of the Tangerine Dream Online Club (TDOC).
The Island of the Fay
Niels Munk, the landowner and nobleman, who owned Rosborg Manor, accused twelve people of bewitching his ailing children, and causing their illnesses through witchcraft.
Rosborg witch trials

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