Antonyms for bewitching

Grammar : Adj

Spell : bih-wich-ing

Phonetic Transcription : bɪˈwɪtʃ ɪŋ

Definition of bewitching

Origin : c.1200, biwicchen, from be- + Old English wiccian "to enchant, to practice witchcraft" (see witch). Literal at first, figurative sense of "to fascinate" is from 1520s. *Bewiccian may well have existed in Old English, but it is not attested. Related: Bewitched; bewitching; bewitchingly.

adj attractive

Example sentences :

The Countess bestowed on me one of her most bewitching smiles.
Extract from : « City of Endless Night » by Milo Hastings

I dared not go near her lest they should think I was bewitching her.
Extract from : « Things as They Are » by Amy Wilson-Carmichael

And Miss Van Harlem, in a bewitching wrapper, sat on the lounge and admired.
Extract from : « Stories of a Western Town » by Octave Thanet

Then she favored me with another nod and a most bewitching smile.
Extract from : « Kent Knowles: Quahaug » by Joseph C. Lincoln

The most exacting and bewitching of all professions was clamouring for him again.
Extract from : « The Destroyer » by Burton Egbert Stevenson

"But I really don't think this," said she, with a bewitching smile.
Extract from : « A Day's Ride » by Charles James Lever

Her pretty dissembling is sure proof, but all concur in its bewitching seeming.
Extract from : « Oswald Langdon » by Carson Jay Lee

"Thank you, dear uncle," she said, with one of her bewitching flashes of smile.
Extract from : « David Elginbrod » by George MacDonald

They were all light-hearted and gay, so that the music began at once, as wild and as bewitching as ever.
Extract from : « The Gypsies » by Charles G. Leland

For him the dazzling sights of Utrecht and Paris had no bewitching charm.
Extract from : « History of the Moravian Church » by J. E. Hutton

Synonyms for bewitching

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