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Definition: Mesmerizing |
MesmerizingAdjective1. Attracting and holding interest as if by a spell; "read the bedtime story in a hypnotic voice"; "she had a warm mesmeric charm"; "the sheer force of his presence was mesmerizing"; "a spellbinding description of life in ancient Rome". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "mesmerizing" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1755. (references) |
Synonyms: MesmerizingSynonyms: hypnotic (adj), mesmeric (adj), spellbinding (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Attention | Interesting, engrossing, mesmerizing, riveting. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Mesmerizing |
| English words defined with "mesmerizing": Mesmerization. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "mesmerizing": mesmerize. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | You were mesmerizing. (Maid in Manhattan; writing credit: Kevin Wade) Mesmerizing ritual, songs and torches-- hard to resist (Unhold, Der; writing credit: Michel Tournier; Jean-Claude Carrière) | |
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| "El Stereo" by Christie Ortiz Commentary: "A pic of our stereo in the dark & its mesmerizing lights..." |
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| "Mesmerizing" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 75.00% of the time. "Mesmerizing" is used about 4 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 |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 75% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 25% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 4 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
liz mesmerizing phair | 11 |
mesmerizing | 6 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "mesmerizing"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
German | hypnotisierend (hypnotizing, mesmeric). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | esmerizingmay.(various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"Mesmerizing" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: mesmerising, mesmerisingly, mesmerrising, messmerising. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "mesmerizing" (pronounced me"zmerī'zing) |
| 6 | -m er ī' z i ng | memorizing, summarizing. |
| 5 | -er ī' z i ng | authorizing, categorizing, characterizing, colorizing, computerizing, demilitarizing, polarizing, popularizing, reauthorizing, satirizing, temporizing, terrorizing, theorizing. |
| 4 | -ī' z i ng | antagonizing, apologizing, appetizing, advertising, aggrandizing, amortizing, analyzing, brutalizing, cannibalizing, capitalizing, centralizing, commercializing, compromising, criminalizing, criticizing, crystallizing, customizing, decentralizing, deemphasizing, dehumanizing, democratizing, demonizing, demoralizing, denationalizing, desensitizing, destabilizing, digitizing, downsizing, dramatizing, economizing, editorializing, emphasizing, energizing, enterprising, equalizing, exercising, fantasizing, federalizing, fertilizing, finalizing, formalizing, fraternizing, galvanizing, generalizing, harmonizing, humanizing, hydrolyzing, idolizing, immobilizing, immunizing, improvising, industrializing, ionizing, ironizing, itemizing, jeopardizing, legalizing, legitimizing, liberalizing, marginalizing, materializing, maximizing, merchandising, minimizing, mobilizing, modernizing, monopolizing, moralizing, nationalizing, neutralizing, normalizing, organizing, oxidizing, paralyzing, patronizing, penalizing, personalizing, politicizing, prioritizing, privatizing, proselytizing, publicizing, rationalizing, realizing, recapitalizing, recognizing, reorganizing, revitalizing, revolutionizing, romanticizing, sanitizing, scrutinizing, securitizing, socializing, specializing, stabilizing, standardizing, sterilizing, stigmatizing, subsidizing, supervising, symbolizing, sympathizing, synthesizing, tantalizing, televising, tranquilizing, trivializing, unappetizing, unionizing, utilizing, vandalizing, verbalizing, visualizing, womanizing. |
| 3 | -z i ng | appeasing, appraising, arising, abusing, accusing, advising, agonizing, amazing, amusing, arousing, blazing, boozing, bowsing, browsing, bruising, bulldozing, buzzing, carousing, causing, chastising, choosing, cleansing, closing, composing, comprising, confusing, cruising, decomposing, decriminalizing, defusing, devising, diffusing, disclosing, disguising, disposing, dozing, easing, enclosing, espousing, excusing, exposing, foreclosing, franchising, freezing, fusing, gazing, glamorizing, glazing, grazing, hazing, hosing, housing, immortalizing, imposing, infusing, institutionalizing, losing, misusing, musing, nosing, oozing, opposing, overgrazing, overusing, paraphrasing, pausing, perusing, phasing, phrasing, pleasing, posing, praising, predisposing, proposing, quizzing, raising, razing, recusing, refusing, reimposing, reusing, revising, rising, Rosing, schmoozing, seizing, sensationalizing, sizing, sneezing, snoozing, squeezing, strategizing, supposing, surprising, teasing, uncompromising, unsurprising, uprising, using, victimizing, warehousing, wheezing, whizzing. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-e-g-i-i-m-m-n-r-s-z" | |
-2 letters: immersing, reseizing, simmering. | |
-3 letters: gremmies, immenser, immerges, regimens, remising, resizing. | |
-4 letters: emigres, ermines, gemmier, germens, gimmies, greisen, gremmie, immense, immerge, immerse, megrims, meinies, mingier, regimen, regimes, remiges, rimming, seeming, seizing, zingers, zingier. | |
-5 letters: emigre, emmers, ermine, genies, genres, germen, gimmes, gimmie, greens, grimes, imines, immies, megrim, meinie, merges, mermen, mimers, miming, miners, minims, miring. | |
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