bewitching

[ bih-wich-ing ]

adjective

1. enchanting; charming; fascinating.

Other Words From

• be·witching·ly adverb
• unbe·witching adjective
• unbe·witching·ly adverb

Word History and Origins

Origin of bewitching¹

First recorded in 1555–65; bewitch + -ing ²

Example Sentences

Alice Molland was sentenced at Exeter Castle, Devon, in 1685 for "bewitching" three of her neighbours.

From BBC

It certainly wasn’t what I was expecting when I opened a bewitching, vintage-tinged box detailing a fantastical assembly line and saw a smattering of board game figurines.

From Los Angeles Times

Drawn to Wanda’s reality-altering powers, the centuries-old witch had been manipulating events in order to learn just how Wanda was pulling off the immense magical feat of bewitching an entire New Jersey town.

From Los Angeles Times

Michael Caine’s performance as the transgender psychiatrist/murderer in “Dressed to Kill” is “predictably amazing and daring”; that film’s intricately constructed cat-and-mouse seduction sequence at the Metropolitan Museum of Art — the interiors were actually shot at the Philadelphia Museum of Art — is “simply mesmerizing and bewitching.”

From Los Angeles Times

Costanzo is a bewitching performer who knows how to move his voice through many shades of tone and meaning — qualities on ample display in the aching Act III aria “Che puro ciel” and, in Act IV, “Che farò senza Euridice,” in which Orpheus realizes that he may have lost his beloved forever.

From New York Times