Beguiling

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Beguile \Be*guile"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Beguiled}; p. pr. &
     vb. n. {Beguiling}.]
     1. To delude by guile, artifice, or craft; to deceive or
        impose on, as by a false statement; to lure.
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              The serpent beguiled me, and I did eat. --Gen. iii.
                                                    13.
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     2. To elude, or evade by craft; to foil. [Obs.]
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              When misery could beguile the tyrant's rage. --Shak.
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     3. To cause the time of to pass without notice; to relieve
        the tedium or weariness of; to while away; to divert.
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              Ballads . . . to beguile his incessant wayfaring.
                                                    --W. Irving.
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     Syn: To delude; deceive; cheat; insnare; mislead; amuse;
          divert; entertain.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Beguiling \Be*guil"ing\, a.
     Alluring by guile; deluding; misleading; diverting. --
     {Be*guil"ing*ly}, adv.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  beguiling
       adj 1: highly attractive and able to arouse hope or desire; "an
              alluring prospect"; "her alluring smile"; "the voice
              was low and beguiling"; "difficult to say no to an
              enticing advertisement"; "a tempting invitation" [syn:
               {alluring}, {enticing}, {tempting}]
       2: misleading by means of pleasant or alluring methods; "taken
          in by beguiling tales of overnight fortunes"

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  107 Moby Thesaurus words for "beguiling":
     alluring, amusing, appealing, appetizing, attractive, bewildering,
     bewitching, blandishing, cajoling, captivating, catching, catchy,
     charismatic, charming, coaxing, come-hither, coquettish, deceiving,
     deceptive, delightful, deluding, delusive, delusory, diverting,
     dubious, enchanting, engaging, enigmatic, enravishing,
     entertaining, enthralling, enticing, entrancing, exceptional,
     exciting, exotic, extraordinary, fabulous, fallacious, false,
     fantastic, fascinating, fetching, fishy, flirtatious, fun,
     glamorous, hallucinatory, humorous, hypnotic, illusive, illusory,
     incomprehensible, inconceivable, incredible, interesting,
     intriguing, inviting, irresistible, marvelous, mesmeric,
     miraculous, misleading, mouth-watering, outlandish,
     passing strange, phenomenal, piquant, prepossessing, prodigious,
     provocative, provoquant, puzzling, questionable, rare, ravishing,
     recreational, remarkable, seducing, seductive, sensational, siren,
     sirenic, spellbinding, spellful, strange, striking, stupendous,
     taking, tantalizing, teasing, tempting, tickling, titillating,
     titillative, trickish, tricksy, tricky, unheard-of, unimaginable,
     unique, unprecedented, winning, winsome, witching, wonderful,
     wondrous