Bewitching

Definition: Bewitching

Bewitching

Adjective

1. Capturing interest as if by a spell; "bewitching smile"; "Roosevelt was a captivating speaker"; "enchanting music"; "an enthralling book"; "antique papers of entrancing design"; "a fascinating woman".

Date "bewitching" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1509. (references)

Synonyms: Bewitching

Synonyms: captivating (adj), enchanting (adj), enthralling (adj), entrancing (adj), fascinating (adj). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Love	Lovable, adorable; lovely, sweet; attractive, seductive, winning; charming, engaging, interesting, enchanting, captivating, fascinating, bewitching; amiable, like an angel.
Pain	Attractive; inviting, prepossessing, engaging; winning, winsome; taking, fascinating, captivating, killing; seducing, seductive; heart-robbing, alluring, enticing; appetizing; (exciting); cheering; bewitching; enchanting, entrancing,
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Bewitching

English words defined with "bewitching": bewitchingly ♦ captivatingly ♦ enchantingly, enthrallingly ♦ Maleficiation. (references)

Etymologies containing "bewitching": Bewitch. (references)

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	Except I'm less worried about hitting my thumb, and more worried about going all black-eyed baddy and bewitching that hammer into cracking my friends' skulls open like coconuts. (Buffy the Vampire Slayer; writing credit: Doreen Spicer)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Domain	Title
Books	Avon Books Presents: Bewitching Love Stories (reference) Bewitching (reference) Bewitching Beloved : TIME Magazine Cover Story [DOWNLOAD: PDF] (reference) Bewitching Familiar (Harlequin Intrigue, No 343) (reference) Bewitching Hour (Harlequin American Romance, No 177) (reference) (more book examples)

Music	Bewitching Piano (reference) More Bewitching Piano (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Author	Quotation
Henry Ward Beecher	Laughter is day, and sobriety is night; a smile is the twilight that hovers gently between both, more bewitching than either.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Title	Author	Quote
Les Miserables	Hugo, Victor	Her astonished and bewildered air rendered her unspeakably bewitching.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Subject	Topic	Quote
Human Rights	Cameroon	On April 11, the traditional rulers of Ekondo-Titi, Southwest Province, acting under the authority of the Balondo Development Association (BACUDA), ordered the expulsion of Iyassa Anou, Joseph Regeant, Johnson Mambo Naseri, Mathew Ajong Awor, Christian Buma, Francisca Nyando, and James Okenye, for allegedly bewitching to death a resident of the town of Lobe; however, the order to expel the seven was not implemented by year's end. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

"Bewitching" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 52.94% of the time. "Bewitching" is used about 17 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)	52.94%	9	117,287
Lexical Verb (-ing form)	35.29%	6	143,867
Noun (proper)	11.76%	2	245,945
Total	100.00%	17	N/A

Expression using "bewitching": a bewitching beauty. Additional references.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Language		Translations for "bewitching"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		magjiplotë, magjepsës (captivating, charming, enchanting, enthralling, entrancing, fascinating, glamor, glamorous, glamour, glamourous, magic, magical, ravishing, witching). (various references)

Arabic		‏خلاب (captivating, charming, entrancing, prepossessing), ‏خالب للأنظار, ‏آخذ بالعين. (various references)

Bulgarian		очарователен (adorable, alluring, captivating, charming, darling, delightful, entrancing, fascinating, fetching, glamorous, glamourous, lovely, orphic, raving, ravishing, stunning, sweet, winning, winsome), омаен (charming, entrancing). (various references)

Chinese		妖 (devil, enchanting, goblin, monster, phantom, witch). (various references)

Czech		podmanivý (engaging, suggestive, winning), okouzlující (adorable, alluring, arresting, beguiling, charming, enchanting, engaging, enthralling, fascinating, fetching, glamorous, glamourous, graceful, prepossessing, ravishing). (various references)

French		ensorcellement, enchantant, charmant. (various references)

German		bezaubernd (adorable, bewitchingly, charming, enchanting, entrancing, entrancingly, fascinating, fascinatingly, fetching, fetchingly, glamorous, glamourous), verzaubernd, verhexend (bedeviling, jinxing). (various references)

Hungarian		elragadó (adorable, captivating, charming, cunning, delightful, fascinating, fetching, magnetic, pleasurable, ravishing, seductive), elbájoló (captivating, catchy, charmer, engaging, fetching, glamorous, glamourous, winsome). (various references)

Indonesian		mempesonakan. (various references)

Italian		affascinante (charming, enchanting, engaging, fascinating, glamorous, glamourous, intriguing, lovely, prepossessing, ravishing, taking, winning). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		艶やか (beautiful, fascinatingly elegant, glossy), 濃艶 (charming, enchanting), 幻惑 (fascination, glamor). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		のうえ�" (brain inflammation, charming, encephalitis, enchanting, nephritis, plantation), あでやか (fascinatingly elegant), �'�"わく (blinding, dazzling, fascination, glamor). (various references)

Manx		buitchagh. (various references)

Pig Latin		ewitchingbay

Portuguese		sedutor (alluring, betrayer, entire, leading candidate, love letter, love making, magnetic disc, seductive, siren, winning, winsome, witching), encantador (alluring, attractive, catchy, charmer, charming, delightful, enchanting, fairy, fascinatingly, fine, glamour, glance, lovable, lovely, magic, magical, pleasant, pretty, ravishing, scrumptious, seductive, sightly, stunner, sweet, taking, winsome, witching), atraente (appealing, attractable, attractive, captivating, catch, charming, cute, dinky, engaging, enthralling, enticing, fetching, ingratiating, interests paid on, inviting, lovely, magnetic, nice, nice-looking, pinup, prepossessing, pretty, sexy, striking, stunner, taking, tempting, winning, winsome, yummy). (various references)

Romanian		fascinant (charming, fascinating). (various references)

Russian		очаровательный (captivating, charming, delightful, enchanting, fascinating, fetching, glamorous, glamourous, ravishing). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		začaravajući, koji začarava. (various references)

Spanish		fascinante (engrossing, enthralling, entrancing, fascinating, glamorous, gripping, spellbinding). (various references)

Swedish		trolsk (magic, magical, weird), förhäxande (witching). (various references)

Thai		จับใจ. (various references)

Turkish		büyüleyici (captivating, challenging, charming, dazzling, enchanting, enthralling, entrancing, fascinating, fetching, glamorous, ravishing, witching, wizard), çekici (alluring, appealing, attractive, breakdown truck, breakdown van, captivating, catching, catchy, charismatic, charming, comely, desirable, endearing, engaging, engrossing, enthralling, fascinating, fetching, haul, haulier, inviting, juicy, magnetic, nubile, prepossessing, ravishing, sapid, seductive, sexy, spicy, stunning, taking, tempting, toothsome, tow truck, towing truck, tractive, tractor, winsome, witching, wrecker). (various references)

Vietnamese		l� m say mê (absorbing, charming, fascinating, fetching, ravishing, transporting, witching), l� m say đắm; quyến rũ, l� m mê mẩn (charming, delightful, transporting). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "bewitching": bewitchingly. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Bewitching" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: reswitching. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "b-c-e-g-h-i-i-n-t-w"
	-2 letters: bitching, bitewing, witching.
	-3 letters: benthic, bewitch, chewing, etching, ichnite, itching, nightie, nitchie, whiting, withing.
	-4 letters: biting, chitin, citing, eching, echini, ethnic, henbit, hewing, hieing, ignite, incite, tewing, tieing, twinge, weight, whinge, whiten, within, witing.
	-5 letters: begin, being, bench, bewig, bight, binge, binit, bitch, chine, eight, ethic, genic, genii, hinge, icing, neigh, niche, night, tench.
	Words containing the letters "b-c-e-g-h-i-i-n-t-w"
	+2 letters: bewitchingly.
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