beguiling
Meaning of beguiling
adjective
- charming or enchanting, often in a deceptive way.
a beguiling mixture of English, French, and Italian
- charm or enchant (someone), often in a deceptive way.
he beguiled the voters with his good looks
- help (time) pass pleasantly.
to beguile some of the time they went to the cinema
Middle English (in the sense ‘deceive, deprive of by fraud’): from be- ‘thoroughly’ + obsolete guile ‘to deceive’ (see guile).
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Hyphenation of beguiling
be-guil-ing
- It consists of 3 syllables and 9 chars.
- beguiling is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables
beguiling synonyms
Meaning alluring:
Meaning delight greatly:
Meaning cause (someone) to have a liking for or interest in something:
Meaning fill (someone) with great delight; charm:
Meaning an opening, such as a door, passage, or gate, that allows access to a place:
Meaning seek the favour, support, or custom of:
Meaning attract and hold the interest and attention of; charm:
Meaning enchant and delight (someone):
Meaning hold the complete attention of (someone) as though by magic; fascinate:
Meaning (of a bright light) blind (a person or their eyes) temporarily:
Meaning cause (someone) to be unable to see, permanently or temporarily:
Meaning capture the whole attention of (someone); fascinate:
Meaning capture the complete attention of (someone); transfix:
Meaning entice (someone) to do or believe something inadvisable or foolhardy:
Meaning entice or try to entice (someone) to do something that they find attractive but know to be wrong or unwise:
Meaning tempt (a person or animal) to do something or to go somewhere, especially by offering some form of reward:
Meaning attract or tempt by offering pleasure or advantage:
Meaning catch in or as in a trap:
Meaning deliberately cause (someone) to believe something that is not true, especially for personal gain:
Meaning cause (someone) to have a wrong idea or impression:
Meaning cunningly deceive or outwit:
Meaning persuade (someone) to do something by means of deception or flattery:
Meaning deceive; trick:
Meaning trick or deceive (someone); dupe:
Meaning deceive or trick:
Meaning cheat or fool:
Meaning persuade (someone) to do or believe something by lying to them:
Meaning cheat or swindle (someone) so as to deprive them of something:
Meaning (of light) shine in beams:
Meaning fool or trick (someone):
Meaning subject (oneself or one's opponent) to a snooker:
Meaning very pleasant or attractive:
Meaning pleasing or appealing to the senses:
Meaning attractive or interesting:
Meaning satisfying or appealing:
Meaning giving a sense of happy satisfaction or enjoyment:
Meaning very beautiful or attractive:
Meaning causing delight; charming:
Meaning delightfully charming or attractive:
Meaning capable of attracting and holding interest; charming:
Meaning exercising a compelling charm which inspires devotion in others:
Meaning enchanting or delightful:
Meaning holding one's attention completely as though by magic; fascinating:
Meaning capturing one's complete attention as if by magic:
Meaning exhibiting or relating to magnetism:
Meaning offering the promise of an attractive or enjoyable experience:
Meaning tempting and attractive; enticing:
Meaning too attractive and tempting to be resisted:
Meaning having a magical or pleasantly unreal quality; dreamlike:
Meaning of heaven; divine:
Meaning beautiful; very attractive:
Meaning provide (someone) with amusement or enjoyment:
Meaning cause (someone) to find something funny:
Meaning please (someone) greatly:
Meaning cause to feel happy and satisfied:
Meaning fill or preoccupy (the mind):
Meaning take in or soak up (energy or a liquid or other substance) by chemical or physical action:
Meaning occupy or attract (someone's interest or attention):
Meaning prevent (someone) from concentrating on something:
Meaning entertain or amuse:
Meaning excite the curiosity or attention of (someone):
Meaning attract the strong attention and interest of (someone):
Meaning capture the fascinated attention of:
Meaning absorb all the attention or interest of:
Meaning (of a matter or subject) dominate or engross the mind of (someone) to the exclusion of other thoughts:
Meaning spend or use up (a period of time):
Meaning give (money) to pay for goods, services, or so as to benefit someone or something:
Meaning pass (time, or a specified amount of it), typically while waiting for a particular event:
Meaning use or expend carelessly, extravagantly, or to no purpose:
Meaning waste time, money, or energy on trifling matters:
Meaning (with reference to a feeling or emotion) disappear or cause to disappear:
beguiling antonyms
Meaning drive or force (an attack or attacker) back or away:
Meaning not inviting or attractive:
Meaning make (a hole) in something with a tool or by digging:
Translation of beguiling
- Spanish: encantador, encantadora, embelesadora, embelesador
- Italian: seducente, allettante, accattivante
- French: enjôleur
- German: betörend
- Portuguese: encantador
Words that rhyme with beguiling
Ling, Coaling, Ealing, annealing, antiwhaling, appealing, autodialing, avaling, backpedaling, baling, bealing, berascaling, canaling, capitaling, charcoaling, coaling, concealing, congealing, countersealing, craaling, credentialing, crystaling, dealing, descaling, dialing, downscaling, embaling, empaling, ensealing, equaling, exhaling, fealing, foaling, forepaling, gealing, gimbaling, goaling, haling, healing, impaling, inhaling, initialing, instealing, interdealing, intervaling, journaling, keelhaling, kraaling, lateraling, localing
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