Definitions for charming

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charming charm·ing

Spelling: [chahr-ming]

IPA: /ˈtʃɑr mɪŋ/

Charming is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 16 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 19 points.

You can make 291 anagrams from letters in charming (acghimnr).

Definitions for charming

noun

1. a power of pleasing or attracting, as through personality or beauty:
2. a trait or feature imparting this power.
3. charms, attractiveness.
4. a trinket to be worn on a bracelet, necklace, etc.
5. something worn or carried on one's person for its supposed magical effect; amulet.
6. any action supposed to have magical power.
7. the chanting or recitation of a magic verse or formula.
8. a verse or formula credited with magical power.
9. Physics. a quantum number assigned the value +1 for one kind of quark, −1 for its antiquark, and 0 for all other quarks. Symbol: C. Compare charmed quark.

adjective

1. pleasing; delightful:
2. using charm; exercising magic power.

verb (used with object)

1. to delight or please greatly by beauty, attractiveness, etc.; enchant:
2. to act upon (someone or something) with or as with a compelling or magical force:
3. to endow with or protect by supernatural powers.
4. to gain or influence through personal charm:

verb (used without object)

1. to be fascinating or pleasing.
2. to use charms.
3. to act as a charm.

Origin of charming

Middle English word dating back to 1250-1300; See origin at charm¹, -ing²

Examples for charming

For those who have a problem with that, she offered a charming, subtle middle finger.

Legs McNeil, of Punk magazine fame, once called him “cute” and “charming.”

But it is this peculiar difference which renders them interesting and charming to the spectator.

So, when I tried to describe the most charming girl of whom I could think, I was describing you.

“Somebody said to me after the premiere, ‘You guys have the most charming Republicans going,’” Molloy remembers.

Yet my man was not half so—so what, my dear—to be sure Lovelace is a charming fellow.

Let me be clear, as the president would say: Obama is telegenic and charming.

Alexander is everything Turing is not—gregarious, flirty, and, you guessed it, charming.

It is a charming spot, even in the gloom of a wintry afternoon.

Thus she ran on; and then wanted me 'to see the charming man,' as she called him.