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Definitions: Charming |
CharmingAdjective1. Pleasing or delighting; "endowed with charming manners"; "a charming little cottage"; "a charming personality". 2. Possessing or using or characteristic of or appropriate to supernatural powers; "charming incantations"; "magic signs that protect against adverse influence"; "a magical spell"; "'tis now the very witching time of night"- Shakespeare; "wizard wands"; "wizardly powers". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "charming" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
Synonyms: CharmingSynonyms: magic (adj), magical (adj), sorcerous (adj), witching(a) (adj), wizard(a) (adj), wizardly (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 | Charming; delightful, felicitous, exquisite; lovely; (beautiful); ravishing, rapturous; heartfelt, thrilling, ecstatic; beatic; beatific; seraphic; empyrean; elysian; (heavenly). |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Charming |
| English words defined with "charming": artsy-craftsy, arty-crafty ♦ belle ♦ charmingly ♦ Effascination ♦ insincere ♦ prince charming ♦ quaintness ♦ suavely ♦ Tempean ♦ vibrant, vivacious ♦ winsome. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "charming": Annabel ♦ Cage, Cecilia, COMPANY ♦ Real Jam ♦ Statira, Swimming ♦ Una Serranilla. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Charming to the last. (Episode IV: A New Hope; writing credit: George Lucas.) You didn't bring me along for my charming personality. (Die Hard; writing credit: Jeb Stuart) I must say, for a charming, intelligent girl, you certainly surrounded yourself with a remarkable collection of dopes. (Laura; writing credit: Vera Caspary; Jay Dratler) Someone once called fidelity a fading woman's greatest defense and a charming woman's greatest hypocracy. (The Prisoner of Zenda; writing credit: Anthony Hope; Edward E. Rose) I do not find your language very charming. (Five Easy Pieces; writing credit: Carole Eastman; Bob Rafelson) | |
Lyrics | That one day your prince charming would come rescue you (I Can Love You Like That; performing artist: All-4-One) I admit it when he charming me (That's What I'm Looking For; performing artist: Da Brat) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Princess Charming (1934) These Charming People (1931) Charming Sinners (1929) The Charming Deceiver (1921) A Charming Villain (1916) | |
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 | Charming well-again. / [J. Gillray]. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | The charming ladies of the week-end party insisted upon bridge until dawn. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | By what canon of art do we expose these charming creatures to the weather?. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | The Barnum and Bailey greatest show on earth--Chaste, charming, weird & wonderful supernatural illusions ... created by Roltair, the magician. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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Edgar Degas | What a delightful thing is the conversation of specialists! One understands absolutely nothing and it's charming. |
Henry James | Money's a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet. |
Iris Murdoch | Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is. |
Louisa May Alcott | Stay is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary. |
Oscar Wilde | All charming people, I fancy, are spoiled. It is the secret of their attraction. |
| It's absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious. | |
| Gossip is charming! History is merely gossip. But scandal is gossip made tedious by morality. | |
Sydney Smith | No furniture is so charming as books. |
Thackeray | Charming Alnaschar visions! It is the happy privilege of youth to construct you! |
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Emma | Austen, Jane | A charming place, undoubtedly. |
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy | Douglas Adams | Beautiful, charming, devastatingly intelligent, at last I'd got her to myself for a bit and was plying her with a bit of talk when this friend of yours barges up and says 'Hey doll, is this guy boring you? |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | The most august, most sublime, and most charming in humanity and perhaps out of humanity, have made plays on words. |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | You also told me that when you were a boy in that charming carmelite school you ate pieces of dried cowdung. |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | We cannot touch a string or move a stop but the charming moral transfixes us. |
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Business | Because casual fashion is very popular among parents, children's fashion has become more casual than ever. Also, very sweet, cute and charming designs with light pastel colors, which seem to adults very "childlike", are also popular. (references) | |
Economic History | China | Brand awareness is increasingly important and sophisticated advertising is beginning to play a crucial role in charming the Chinese consumer. (references) |
Travel | Bulgaria | One charming but confusing custom is that head movements indicating agreement or disagreement are reversed in Bulgaria. (references) |
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Julie Andrews | Pretty nice. Pretty nice. They were both two of the handsomest fellows and the most charming fellows, and I didn't know which way to look they were both so gorgeous. |
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| "Charming" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 99.93% of the time. "Charming" is used about 1,376 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) | 99.93% | 1,375 | 5,811 |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 0.07% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 1,376 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Country | Name |
| USA | Charming Shoppes Incorporated |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
Expressions using "charming": charming lady ♦ prince charming ♦ prince of charming. Additional references. | |
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Ending with "charming": half-charming, slyly-charming. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
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Afrikaan | bekoorlik (lovely), beeldig (delightful, lovely), beelderig (delightful, lovely), aanvallig (lovely), aanminlik (lovely). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | simpatik, magjepsës (bewitching, captivating, enchanting, enthralling, entrancing, fascinating, glamor, glamorous, glamour, glamourous, magic, magical, ravishing, witching), joshës (alluring, attractive, captivating, engaging, enticing, fetching, glamorous, glamourous, luscious, seducer, seductive, sexy, tempter, tempting, winning, winsome), i nurshëm (good looking), i hirshëm (attractive, delightful, engaging, fancy, graceful), i hijshëm (becoming, comely, cool, dainty, decent, decorous, delicate, delicious, distinguished, elegant, graceful, jimp, nice, personable), adhurueshëm (absorbing, fascinating, lovely). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | فتان (fetching), فاتن (alluring, attractive, breathtaking, captivating, catching, cute, darling, enchanting, engaging, entrancing, exquisite, fascinating, glamorous, glamourous, likely, lovely, magic, magical, mesmeric, personable, philanderer, picturesque, pretty, ravishing, seducer, spellbinding, stunning, superb, sweet, tempter, thrilling, winning, winsome, zestful), لطيف (affable, agreeable, amiable, benign, bland, civil, civilized, complaisance, complaisant, courteous, courtly, decent, delicate, fair, fair-spoken, fine, friendly, genial, gentle, good natured, gracious, handsome, kind, kindly, light, mild, nice, pet, pleasant, polite, poppet, pretty, refreshing, smooth, soft, suave, sweet, tender, tenuous, thin, urbane), ساحر (attractive, bewitched, captivating, conjuror, darling, ducky, enchanting, engaging, fascinating, fetching, glamorous, glamourous, magic, magical, magnetic, magus, mesmeric, pleasant, prestigious, ravishing, stunning, taking, winning, winsome, zestful), عذب (agonize, agreeable, bedevil, benign, chasten, crucify, devil, dulcet, freshen, grilled, harrow, harry, hearty, leisurely, liquid, murder, palmy, persecute, pillory, plague, quiet, rack, rack one's brains, scourge, silken, silky, sleek, smite, smooth, smooth spoken, soft, suave, sweet, sympathetic, tantalize, tease, tender, torment, torture, wrench, wring), خلاب (bewitching, captivating, entrancing, prepossessing), جذاب (allurement, alluring, appealing, attractive, becoming, captivating, catching, catchy, cute, desirable, ducky, engaging, enticing, fascinating, fetching, fine, inviting, magnetic, magnetizing, nice, picturesquely, pleasant, prepossessing, pretty, seductive, sweet, taking, tasty). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | очарователен (adorable, alluring, bewitching, captivating, darling, delightful, entrancing, fascinating, fetching, glamorous, glamourous, lovely, orphic, raving, ravishing, stunning, sweet, winning, winsome), омаен (bewitching, entrancing), обаятелен (fascinating, glamorous, glamourous, winsome), прелестен (adorable, beauteous, beautiful, delightsome, dreamy, exquisite, fetching, lovely, sweet), пленителен (alluring, captivating, enchanting, fascinating, killing, raving, ravishing, taking). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 迷人 (enchanting, fascinating, tempting), 迷住 (Charmed, Fascinate, Fascinated, Fascinating). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | roztomilý (amiable, appealing, cute, darling, lovable, lovely, pleasing, pretty, refreshing, sweet), pùvabný (appealing, attractive, comely, dainty, graceful, gracious, ingratiating, inviting, lightsome, lovely, pleasing, prepossessing, statuesque, winsome), okouzlující (adorable, alluring, arresting, beguiling, bewitching, enchanting, engaging, enthralling, fascinating, fetching, glamorous, glamourous, graceful, prepossessing, ravishing), kouzelný (fetching, magic, wizard). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | fortryllende (lovely). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | innemend (lovely, sympathetic), charmant (lovely). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Esperanto | ĉarma (lovely). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Faeroese | yndisligur (graceful, lovely). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | suloinen (delightful, lovely, pleasing, sweet). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | charmant. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Frisian | floatich (lovable, lovely), bekoarlich (lovely), aardich (attractive, important, lovely, serious). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | anmutig (comely, daintily, dainty, graceful, gracefully, lovely, pretty), reizend (charmingly, delectable, delightful, delightfully, fetching, graceful, gracefully, lovely, piquing, provoking, quaint, teasing), bezaubernd (adorable, bewitching, bewitchingly, enchanting, entrancing, entrancingly, fascinating, fascinatingly, fetching, fetchingly, glamorous, glamourous), lieblich (delightful, fair, lovely, mellifluous, mellow, sweet), entzückend (delightful, enchanting, fetching, lovely, rapturing). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | γοητευτικόσ (delightful, fascinating, fetching, glamorous, glamourous, ravishing), θελκτικόσ (alluring, becoming, delightful, fetching). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hawaiian | adhurueshëm (absorbing, fascinating, lovely). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | מקסים (catching, enchanting, enthralling, entrancing, fascinating, fetching, stunning, winning, winsome), מצו"" לב (alluring, captivating, enthralling, enticing, fascinating), חמ" (adorable, cute, dainty, delightful, desirable, lovely, mellow, nice, pleasant, pretty). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | bájos (attractive, catchy, comely, cunning, engaging, graceful, gracious, lovely, sweet). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Icelandic | elskulegur (lovely). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | gandes (elegant, graceful), bahari (ancient, antique, maritime, nautical). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | grazioso (affable, bonny, dinky, friendly, good-natured, graceful, gracious, kind, lovable, lovely, neat, nice, pleasant, pretty, sweet), affascinante (bewitching, enchanting, engaging, fascinating, glamorous, glamourous, intriguing, lovely, prepossessing, ravishing, taking, winning), incantevole (charmingly, delightful, enchanting, enchantingly, entrancing, lovely, ravishing), amabile (agreeable, amiable, genial, lovable, lovely, sweet). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 艶然 , 艶めかしい (captivating), 艶 (fascinating, glaze, gloss, voluptuous), 魅力的 (fascinating), 床しい (admirable, refined), チフス菌 (a channel, chaff, chalk, Chalmers, champion, champion flag, championship belt, chance, channel, channelling, chapel, chapter, charge, charity, Charleston, charm, charm point, chart, chart file, charter, chat, chattering, child, child seat, chime, China, Chinese, Chinese collar, chunk, church, key-bounce, Mandarin collar, most attractive feature, opportunity, pennant, self-challenge, Tchaikovsky, Tibet, trying hard to do something, typhoid bacillus, zipper), 惚れ惚れ (fondly), 愛敬のある (attractive), 愛らしい (lovely, pretty), 濃艶 (bewitching, enchanting), 微笑ましい (pleasant), 優艶 (fascinating), シャモット煉" (beautiful, chamotte brick, champagne, champignon, Champs Elysees, chandelier, chanson, chansonnier, Chantilly, charade, Charlotte, charm, chou a la creme, cream-filled pastry, Schubert, shallot, shampoo, Shangri-la, shank, shoes, shoeshine, shoot, shooting script, shower, ski jump, sugar, sugar coat, sugar cut, sure, surrealism), 可愛い (cute, darling, dear, lovely, pet, pretty). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | チャーミング , なまめかしい (captivating), のうえ" (bewitching, brain inflammation, encephalitis, enchanting, nephritis, plantation), ほほえましい (pleasant), ほれぼれ (fondly), かわいい (cute, darling, dear, lovely, pet, pretty), かわゆい (cute, darling, dear, lovely, pet, pretty), あいきょうのある (attractive), あいらしい (lovely, pretty), ゆうえ" (deep and remote, elegant, faraway, fascinating, grand, remoteness), ゆかしい (admirable, refined), シャルマン , みりょくてき (fascinating), え"ぜ" (as if, coast, far-sightedness, shore), え" (bonds, chance, circle, connection, dam, destiny, false charge, fascinating, fate, garden, hatred, karma, relation, salt, voluptuous, weir, Yen). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 매혹 (Enchanting, Enthrallment, Fascination). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Malay | cantik (beautiful, fair, fine, handsome, lovely). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | obbeeys (enchantment, incantation, magic, occultism, sorcery, spell-casting, witchcraft, wizardry), obbee (sorcery), druaightys (druid, druidism, magic), druaightagh (charmer, druid, druidic, druidical, magician, occult), buitcheraght (black magic, spell-casting, witchcraft). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Norwegian | snill (good, kind, lovely). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | armingchay uroczy (lovely). (various references) fascinante (absorbing, enchanting, fascinating, glamorous, glamourous, lovely, witching), encantador (alluring, attractive, bewitching, catchy, charmer, delightful, enchanting, fairy, fascinatingly, fine, glamour, glance, lovable, lovely, magic, magical, pleasant, pretty, ravishing, scrumptious, seductive, sightly, stunner, sweet, taking, winsome, witching). (various references) encantadora. (various references) captivant (absorbing, captivating, engaging, engrossing, exciting, fascinating, gripping, thrilling), drãguţ (attractive, beloved, comely, cute, dainty, darling, dinky, good looking, handsome, kind, lovable, lovely, nice, nice-looking, pretty, sweet, sweetheart), adonis (adonis, beau, prince), adorabil (admirable, adorable, amiable, choice, darling, delicious, delightful, exquisite, wonderful, worshipful), agreabil (agreeable, agreeably, attractive, boon, cheerful, delightful, enjoyable, genial, genially, good, gratefully, gratifying, nice, pleasant, pleasing, pleasurable, smooth-faced), delicios (dainty, darling, delicate, delicious, luscious, palatable, Savory, savoury), încântãtor (alluring, delightful, entrancing, glamorous, glamourous, rapturous, ravishing), drãgãstos (affectionate, affectionately, amative, amorous, attractive, dearly, loving, lovingly, sweet), vrãjit (bewitched, elf-struck, spellbound), dulce (amorously, benign, bland, candied, dear, dessert, dulcet, flattering, fresh, genial, gentle, gently, honeyed, lovable, luscious, melliferous, mellow, melodious, slack, smooth, soft, suave, sugared, sweet, sweetly, sweets, tender, winning), fascinant (bewitching, fascinating), fermecãtor (captivating, delightful, delightfully, enchanting, entrancing, magic, magical, ravishing, winsome, wizard), minunat (beautiful, beautifully, best, brave, bright, capital, champion, delightfully, exceptional, jolly, lovely, magic, magical, marvellous, miraculous, paradisaic, paradisaical, passing, proud, royal, special, splendid, strange, superb, superbly, supernatural, tiptop, wonderful, wonder-working), nurliu (attractive), rãpitor (grasping, predacious, predatory, rapacious, rapturous, ravishing), dezmierdãtor (affectionate, delightful, fond, sweet, tender). (various references) очаровательный (bewitching, captivating, delightful, enchanting, fascinating, fetching, glamorous, glamourous, ravishing), обаятельный (engaging, glamorous, glamourous, ravishing, winsome). (various references) privlačan (alluring, arresting, attractive, catchy, engaging, fetching, foxy, personable, prepossessing, sexy, toothsome, winning, winsome), mio (amiable, disarming, likable, likeable, sweet), ljubak (cute, ducky, graceful), graciozan (flowing, lightsome, slinky, svelte), dražesan, šarmantan. (various references) encantador (delightful, disarming, enchanter, enchanting, enchantingly, entrancing, glamorous, glamourous, lovable, lovely, magician, ravishing, taking, winning), lindo (beautiful, bonny, comely, cute, delightful, hairdo, lovely, nice, nice-looking, pretty, what, whatever), bonito (affable, beauteous, beautiful, delightful, fair, fine, friendly, good-natured, handsome, kind, lovely, lustrous, nice, pretty). (various references) förtjusande (adorable, delightful, ducky, enchanting, fascinating, fetching, lovely, ravishing), charmant, behagfull (graceful, lovely), älsklig (lovable, loveable, lovely). (various references) cazibeli (attractive, enticing, prepossessing), sevimli (amiable, appealing, bonny, cuddlesome, cuddly, cunning, cute, delectable, fair, likable, likeable, lovable, lovely, nice, pleasant, prettily, pretty, sapid, sympathetic, winning, winsome), hoş (affable, agreeable, beautiful, bonny, canny, clean-cut, congenial, debonair, debonaire, delectable, delicious, delightful, desirable, elegant, enjoyable, fine, fragrant, handsome, jolly, kind, kindly, likable, likeable, lovable, lovely, nice, nicely, pleasant, pleasing, pleasurable, prettily, pretty, sapid, smart, smooth, suave, subtile, subtle, sweetly, tuneful, well, winning, winsome), büyüleyici (bewitching, captivating, challenging, dazzling, enchanting, enthralling, entrancing, fascinating, fetching, glamorous, ravishing, witching, wizard), alımlı (attractive, comely, endearing, engaging, fetching, prepossessing), çekici (alluring, appealing, attractive, bewitching, breakdown truck, breakdown van, captivating, catching, catchy, charismatic, 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) чудовий (a, admirable, adorable, ambrosial, bang up, beautiful, brave, bright, bully, capital, champion, clinking, consummate, crack, Dandy, delectable, delicious, delightful, eminent, excellent, fine, flawless, glorious, goluptious, gorgeous, immense, magnific, magnifical, magnificent, noble, notable, noted, palmary, peachy, posh, prime, princely, proper, providential, ravishing, remarkable, resplendent, ripping, something like, sovereign, spiffing, superb, super-duper, topping, undeniable, way out, wizard, wonderful), чарівний (admirable, adorable, alluring, amiable, appealing, basilisk, captivating, compelling, darling, delicious, delightful, elfish, elvish, enchanted, enchanting, engaging, entrancing, fairy, fascinating, glamorous, glamourous, goluptious, ingratiating, lovely, magic, magical, orphean, pretty). (various references) yêu kiều; có sức quyến rũ, l m say mê (absorbing, bewitching, fascinating, fetching, ravishing, transporting, witching), l m mê mẩn (bewitching, delightful, transporting), duyên dáng (airy, comely, graceful, ingratiatingly, personable, smart, well-favoured, well-looking), đẹp (bonny, comely, gainly, good-looking, goodly, natty, picturesque, splendid). (various references) swynol (fascinating). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | bellus. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "charming": charminger, charmingest, charmingly. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "charming": becharming, outcharming, uncharming. (additional references) | |
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"Charming" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Chamanji, chamming, charing, charking, charman, charmi, charmin, Charmion, Charmond, Chemring, Chernin, chirkin, chirking, churnimg, Schladming. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "charming" (pronounced khÄ"rming) |
| 5 | -Ä" r m i ng | alarming, arming, disarming, farming, harming, rearming. |
| 4 | -r m i ng | barnstorming, brainstorming, conforming, forming, heartwarming, informing, misinforming, nonperforming, outperforming, performing, reforming, storming, swarming, transforming, warming. |
| 3 | -m i ng | acclaiming, affirming, aiming, assuming, beaming, becoming, blaming, blooming, blossoming, bombing, booming, bottoming, brimming, calming, claiming, climbing, combing, coming, condemning, confirming, consuming, cramming, damming, damning, daydreaming, deprogramming, diagraming, dimming, disclaiming, dooming, dreaming, drumming, dumbing, embalming, exclaiming, filming, firebombing, firming, flaming, foaming, forthcoming, framing, fuming, gaming, gleaming, gloaming, grooming, helming, hemming, homecoming, homing, humming, incoming, inflaming, jamming, lambing, lemming, liming, looming, maiming, mainstreaming, mushrooming, naming, numbing, oncoming, overcoming, overwhelming, plumbing, presuming, priming, proclaiming, programing, programming, ramming, reaffirming, reclaiming, redeeming, renaming, reprogramming, resuming, rhyming, roaming, rooming, scheming, screaming, seeming, shaming, shortcoming, skimming, slamming, slimming, squirming, steaming, stemming, streaming, strumming, succumbing, summing, swimming, taming, teaming, teeming, terming, thumbing, timing, trimming, unassuming, unbecoming, upcoming, vacuuming, welcoming, zooming. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: marching. | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-g-h-i-m-n-r" | |
-1 letter: arching, chagrin, charing, harming. | |
-2 letters: aching, arcing, arming, caring, chimar, grinch, haring, harmin, inarch, macing, margin, racing. | |
-3 letters: acing, amnic, cairn, chain, chair, chang, charm, china, chirm, cigar, gamic, gamin, garni, grain, ihram, inarm, magic, manic, march, micra, naric, ranch. | |
-4 letters: agin, airn, amin, amir, arch, cain, carn, cham, char, chia, chin, crag, cram. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-g-h-i-m-n-r" | |
+2 letters: becharming, chambering, chamfering, charminger, charmingly, rematching, uncharming. | |
+3 letters: archegonium, chairmaning, charmingest, merchanting, mischarging, monographic, nomographic, outcharming, outmarching, phonogramic. | |
+4 letters: benchmarking, camphorating, chairmanning, checkmarking, overmatching, phonogrammic, scrimshawing. | |
+5 letters: achromatizing, benchmarkings, cholangiogram, cinematograph, histaminergic, hydromagnetic, jackhammering, merchandising, merchandizing, micrographing. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)43 68 61 72 6D 69 6E 67 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-.-. .... .- .-. -- .. -. --. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000011 01101000 01100001 01110010 01101101 01101001 01101110 01100111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)C h a r m i n g |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0043 0068 0061 0072 006D 0069 006E 0067 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)3774678479758073 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Slideshow 7. Images: Photo Album 8. Quotations: Familiar | 9. Quotations: Fiction 10. Quotations: Non-fiction 11. Quotations: Spoken 12. Usage Frequency | 13. Names: Company Usage 14. Expressions 15. Expressions: Internet 16. Translations: Modern | 17. Translations: Ancient 18. Derivations 19. Rhymes 20. Anagrams | 21. Orthography 22. Bibliography |
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vertaling, transferim, transmetim, ترجمة من لغة أجنبية للغة الأم, ترجمة, إفتتان, транслация, огъване, превод, предаване, поддаване, тълкуване, превеждане, 翻译, překlad, oversættelse, translatie, taajuusmuutos, translaatio, traduction, oersetting, Übersetzung, μετάφραση, תור'מ ות, תר'ום, "עתק", "עתק, fordítás, traduzione, 翻訳 , へい"ういどう, やくしょ, やくしゅつ, "うどく, ほ"やく, トランスレーション , やくじゅつ, ほ"やくしょ, 번역, tradukshon, tradução, translaţie, tãlmãcire, traducere, сдвиг, трансляция, перемещение, перевод, tumačenje, traducción, översättning, tercüme, процес перекладу, переклад, пояснення, переміщення, sự dịch, sự biến th nh sự giải thích, trosiad, for translation; vertaal, transmetoj, transferoj, نقل من لغة إلى أخرى, ترجم الأفكار الي أعمال, ترجم, بهج لأقصى حد, преправям от старо, премествам, обяснявам, изяснявам, тълкувам, прибирам в рая, превеждам, кърпя, traduir, 翻译, 翻譯 , 翻 , 繙 , přenést, přeložit, překládat, oversætte, vertalen, translateren, overzetten, týða, kääntää, traduire, übersetzen, μεταφράζω, לתר'ם, fordít, þýða, tradurre, トランスフォー 断層 , トランスレート , 번역하십시", chyndaa, oversette, tradusí, tłumaczyć, traduzir, traduce, переводить, prevoditi, prevesti, preneti, traducir, översätta, tercüme yapmak, tercüme etmek, переміщувати, пояснювати, перекладатися, перекладати, trosi, for translate; 翻译, siirros, translation, übersetzend, μετάφραση, תר'ום, traslazione, 번역, tãlmãcire, traductorio, traduciendo, översättandet, översätter, for Translating; transferues, المترجم, الترجمان, преводач, 译者, překladatel, kodeomsætter, omregner, isolertransformer, skilletransformer, omsætter, Oversætter, oversætterprogram, oversaetter, kääntäjä, Traducteur, Übersetzer, Mεταφραστής, μετασχηματιστής απομονώσεως, μεταβιβαστής, μεταφράστησ, μεταφραστής, αποκωδικοποιητής, מתר'ם, תור'מן, fordító, traduttore, 訳者 , 翻訳者 , 翻訳家 , トランスフォー 断層 , トランスレーター , トランスレータ , ほ"やくしゃ, ほ"やくか, やくしゃ, 통역, glareyder, chyndaader, tradutor, tãlmaci, translator, traducãtor, tãlmãcitor, переводчик, tumač, traductor, um-húmushi, översättare, tercüman, транслятор, гравірувальник, перекладач, cyfieithydd, for translator; Engels, anglezët, anglez, gjuhë zngleze, anglishte, anglisht, الإنجليزية, الأنكليزي, إنكليزي, ترجمة إنكليزية, اللغة الإنكليزية, английски език, английски, англичаните, anglès, Ingles, 英语, 英國 , 英文 , 英 , 英語 , anglicky, anglan, inglise, enskt, englantia, englantilainen, anglais, Ingelsk, englisch, εγγλέζοσ, αγγλικόσ, angle, angleze, א 'לית, angol, ensku, enskur, enska, Béarla, inglese, 영국, oluzungu, luzungu, englesch, anglisy, Inggris, Sostynagh, Sostnagh, Baarlagh, english, inglês, anglés, inglestataq, inglesta, englezesc, английский, Igilisi, beurla, engleski, englez, engleski jezik, angleško, ingiriisi, ingiriisiga, sekgowa, inglés, kiingereza, sí-Ngísi, engelsk, peret‘ne, เกี่ยวกับประเทศอังกฤษ, ชาวอังกฤษ, าษาอังกฤษ, sekgoa, ingiltere, ingiliz, Íngílízce, ingilizce, Íngílíz, ýngilizce, англійський, англійці, англійська мова, Saesneg, ngale, isilungu, isiNgisi, for English; Albaans, Albanies, Albaniese taal, shqip, الألبانية, الألباني, албанец, албански език, албански, Albanyano, 阿"巴尼亚语, 阿爾巴尼亞人 , albánský, Albanees, albanskt, albanialainen, Albanais, Albaneesk, albaner, αλβανικόσ, Αλβανός, αλβανόσ, arbnisht, arbërisht, albán, albanskur, albanska, AlbÚinis, albanese, 알"니아, Albaneagh, albanês, arnãut, albanez, arnãuţesc, албанский, Alapania, albanski, albanac, albanés, alban, Arnavut, албанський, албанка, албанець, for Albanian; Arabies, arabishte, العربية, عربي, اللغة العربية, арабски език, арабски, 阿拉伯 , arabský, arabština, arábiskt, arabialainen, arabe, Arabysk, arabisch, αραβικόσ, ערבית, ערבי, arab, arabo, 아라비아, Arabish, arabir, arabic, арабский, Arapi, arapski, árabe, arabisk, าษาหรืออักขระอาหรับ, เกี่ยวกับอาระเบีย, arapça, arap, araplara özgü, арабська мова, арабський, tiếng A-rập, thuộc A-rập, for Arabic; asturiano, for asturian; aimará, aimara, for aymara; Baskies, Bask, واحد من الباسكيين, الباسكي, Vascu, жакетче, баскски език, баскски, баска, Basko, 巴斯克 , 巴斯克語 , baskiskur, baskiskt, Basque, Baskysk, baskisch, baske, baszk, Bascais, basco, バスに乗る , バスク , Bascish, Bascagh, basc, баскский, баск, baskijski jezik, baskijski, baskijac, vascuence, vasco, bask'lar veya bask dili ile ilgili, bask kabilesinden kimse, футерування, баскський, облицювання, блузка у талію, for Basque; Beier, 巴法力亚, bavarois, bayer, βαυάροσ, bajorországi, bajor, bavarese, Baveyragh, bávaro, bavarski, bavarac, bajersk, bavyera, bavyeralı, баварський, баварець, for Bavarian; μαυροπόδαροσ, for blackfoot; breizhat, 不列"尼人, Breton, Bretone, 브리타니 사람, Britaanagh, Bretonagh, Britaanish, bretão, Llydaweg, for Breton; Bulgaars, Bulgaar, bulgr, البلغارية, بلغاري, Búlgaru, български, български език, българин, Bulgaryan, 保 利亚, bulharský, bulgarer, bulgarskt, bulgarialainen, Bulgaarsk, bulgare, 'ούλγαρος, bullgar, bolgár, bulgaro, 불가리아, Bulgeyragh, Bulgeyrish, Bułgar, болгарский, болгарин, bugarski jezik, bugarski, bugarka, bugarin, búlgaro, bulgar, bulgaristan ile ilgili, болгарський, người Bun-ga-ri tiếng Bun-ga-ri, for Bulgarian; каталонски, каталонец, catal , katalánský, Katalaansk, katalanisch, katalane, katalanin, katalán, catalano, catalão, catalan, каталонский, Katalana, katalonski, katalonac, catalán, katalansk, katalonyalı kimse, katalonyalı, katalonya veya dili ile ilgili, katalonya lehçesi, for catalan; Sjinees, Chinees, kinez, الصينية, لغة الصين, صيني, الصيني أحد أبناء الصين, Chinu, китайски, Ininsik, 汉语, 中 , 漢 , 中國 , èínský, èínština, èíòan, kineser, kinesiskt, kinverskur, kiinalainen, Chinois, Sineesk, Chinesisch, Κινέζος, κινέζικα, κινέζικοσ, κινέζοσ, σινικόσ, kínai, Kínverji, Sínis, cinese, チフス菌 , チャイニーズ , 중국, Cina, Sheenish, Sheenagh, Hainamana, chines, Chińczyk, chinês, chinés, chinezesc, chinezeşte, chinezã, chinez, китайский, китаец, Saina, kineski jezik, kineski, chino, snesi, sneysi, kinesisk, çinli, çince, çin ile ilgili, çin, китаянка, китайська мова, китайський, кита"ць, for Chinese; ضارب للإصفرار, корнуолски език, корнуолски, 康沃", cornwallština, cornwallský, cornique, kornisch, aus cornwall, carnwalli nyelvjárás, corwaldi kelta, della cornovaglia, Kernowish, Kernowagh, Cornish, Cornagh, relativo cornualha, dialeto da cornualha, limbã din cornwall, din cornwall, корнуоллский язык, корнуоллский, stanovnik kornvala, kornvalski, córnico, från cornwall, kornisk, cornwall ile ilgili, корнуольський, корнійська мова, Cernyweg, for cornish; Kroaties, хърватски, Croasyano, 克羅地亞語 , chorvatský, kroatiskt, croate, Kroätysk, kroatisch, horvát, croato, croácio, croata, croat, хорватский, hrvatski, hrvat, de croacia, kroatisk, hırvat, хорватська мова, хорватський, хорватка, хорват, for Croatian; Tsjeggies, Tsjeg, çek, تشيكي, اللغة التشيكوسلوفاكية, التشيكي أحد أبناء تشيكوسلوفاكيا, Checu, чешки, Sekoslovakyano, 捷克語 , 捷克语, 捷克 , èesky, èeské, èech, èeština, èeský, èeška, tjekker, tjekke, Tsjech, Tsjechisch, tjekkiskt, t?ekkiläinen, tchèque, Tsjechysk, Tscheche, tschechisch, Tschechin, Τσέχος, cseh, ceco, 체", Sheckagh, Sheckish, Czech, chèc, ceh, чешский, češki jezik, čeh, češki, checo, tjeck, Çek, çekoslovakyalı kimse, çekoslovakyalı, çek dili, чех, чеська мова, чеський, чешка, người Séc tiếng Séc, for Czech; Deens, danisht, danishte, لغة الدانمركية, نوع كعك, دانماركي, датски език, датски, Daniko, 丹麦语, dánský, dánština, danskur, danskt, tanskalainen, danois, Deensk, dänisch, δανικόσ, δανόσ, עו'ת שמרים, " י, dán, danska, Danmhairgis, danese, 덴마크, Danvargish, Danvargagh, danes, dinamarquês, danez, датский, danski, danski jezik, danés, dansk, danimarkalı, danimarka dili, датський, датська мова, tiếng Đan-mạch, for Danish; Nederlands, Hollands, holandez, هولندي, اللغة الهولندية, холандски, немски език, холандски език, холандците, немски, Olandes, 菏蘭語 , 荷兰语, holandský, nizozemský, hollandsk, hollendskt, hollantilainen, néerlandais, Nederlânsk, holländisch, ολλανδικόσ, ολλανδόσ, holandisht, "ול "י, holland, hollenskur, Ollainnis, olandese, 네덜란", Belanda, Ollanish, Germaanish, Tatimana, nederlandsk, ulandes, hulandes, holandês, neerlandés, olandez, nemţesc, limba olandezã, german, голландский, holanđanin, u škripcu, holandski, holandés, bakratongo, holländsk, ชาวเนเธอร์แลน"์, เกี่ยวกับเนเธอร์แลน"์, รรยา, alman, eş, flemenkçe, holandaca, hollanda, karı, hollandalı, hollandalılara özgü olan, Hollandali, hollanda'ya ait, голландська мова, голландський, ngôn ngữ khó hiểu, "b xã", for Dutch; الاسبرانتو لغة دولية, Esperantu, есперанто, 世界语, esperanton, espéranto, εσπεράντο, אספר טו, eszperanto, eszperantó, エスキモー犬 , エスペラント , эсперанто, Eseperano, esperanto, Kiesperanto, าษาที่ประ"ิษฐ์ขึ้นเพื่อใช้เป็น าษากลางในการสื่อสารระหว่างประเทศ ซึ่งรากศัพท์ส่วนใหญ่, esperanto dili, tiếng etperantô, for esperanto; Ests, Est, estonez, من أبناء إستونيا, أستونيه, أستونى, Estoniu, естонски, естонец, естонски език, Estonyano, 爱沙尼亚, estonský, ester,estlænder, Estlander, Estlands, eesti, estonianskt, virolainen, estonien, Estysk, Este, Εσθονός, észt, estone, Estoinagh, estônio, estoniano, estónio, eston, эстонец, эстонский, Esotonia, estonski, estonac, estonski jezik, estonio, estländare, ชาวเอสโตเนีย, เกี่ยวกับประชาชน าษาหรือวั'นธรรมของเอสโตเนีย, าษาเอสโตเนีย, for Estonian; 费罗族, føroyskur, färöisk, färöbo, for Faeroese; Farsi, Parsi, persiskt, Fasi, for Farsi; Fins, finlandez, finlandishte, finlandisht, اللغة الفنلندية, فنلندية, فنلندي, фински език, фински, Pinlandino, 芬蘭語 , 芬兰语, finský, finskt, suomi, suomalainen, finnois, Finlandaise, finlandais, finnisch, φινλανδικόσ, פי י, finn, finnskur, finnska, finlandese, 핀란", Fynlannish, Fynlannagh, finlandês, finês, finlandezã, финский, Finisi, finski jezik, finski, finlandés, finés, finsk, fince, finlandiya'ya özgü, фінська мова, фінський, tiếng Phần-lan, for Finnish; فلمنكي, الفلمنكية لغة, الأرنب الفلمنكي, фламандски, фламандски език, 佛蘭'語 , 佛兰'语, vlámský, vlaams, Flaamsk, flandrisch, flämisch, פלמי, flamand, flamand nyelv, fiammingo, "랑"르, Flandrynish, Flandrynagh, flamengo, фламандский, flamanski jezik, flamanski, flamenco, flamländsk, flaman diline ait, flaman dili, flaman, фламандська мова, фламандський, Fflemeg, for flemish; Franse taal, Frans, franceze, francez, frëngjisht, frëng, frëngjishte, فرنسي, اللغة الفرنسية, الشعب الفرنسي, gall, френски език, френски, Pranses, 法國 , 法文 , 法語 , 法语, francouzština, francouzský, franskur, franskt, ranskalainen, français, Frânsk, französisch, γάλλοσ, γαλλικ |
