charmed
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English[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /tʃɑːmd/
- (General American) IPA(key): /t͡ʃɑɹmd/
Audio (GA) (file) - Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)md
- Hyphenation: charmed
Adjective[edit]
charmed (comparative more charmed, superlative most charmed)
- Under a magic spell (cast by a charm); bewitched.
- Having great good fortune, as though magically wrought.
- c. 1587–1588, [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire, London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act I, scene ii:
- Draw forth thy ſword, thou mightie man at armes,
Intending but to raiſe my charmed ſkin:
And Ioue himſelfe will ſtretch his hand from heauen,
To ward the blow, and ſhield me ſafe from harme, […]
- 1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part I, page 218:
- ‘That animal has a charmed life,’ he said; ‘but you can say this only of brutes in this country. No man - you apprehend me? - no man here bears a charmed life.’
- Impressed by the pleasantness of something.
- You are very gracious; I am charmed by your personality.
- (physics) Of a particle: having nonzero charm.
Derived terms[edit]
Translations[edit]
under a magic spell — see also bewitched
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impressed by the pleasantness of something
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having nonzero charm
Verb[edit]
charmed
- simple past and past participle of charm