as in appealing
having an often mysterious or magical power to attract
travelers to India say that it has an entrancing beauty that is hard to describe
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as in fascinating
to fill with overwhelming emotion (as wonder or delight)
a production of The Nutcracker ballet that will entrance audiences
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Recent Examples of entrancing
Ilana Kaplan, PEOPLE, 22 Sep. 2025
But each night, Hero’s stories before bedtime prove so entrancing that Manfred fails to go through with any seducing, let alone ravishing.
—Leslie Felperin, HollywoodReporter, 5 Sep. 2025
Shania Russell, Entertainment Weekly, 29 Sep. 2025
And the words, while sparse, move together with pauses and spaces to form a musical, entrancing pace or rhythm, one that is distinct from everyday speech and which the reader must be willing to follow.
—Brian Robert Moore
september 5, Literary Hub, 5 Sep. 2025
Yet there’s something entrancing about his question.
—Hua Hsu, New Yorker, 18 Aug. 2025
Adjective
Girl Violence is in its beginning stages, very sexy, very erotic, very entrancing.
—Ilana Kaplan, PEOPLE, 22 Sep. 2025
But each night, Hero’s stories before bedtime prove so entrancing that Manfred fails to go through with any seducing, let alone ravishing.
—Leslie Felperin, HollywoodReporter, 5 Sep. 2025
Verb
As Lucky, Thornton is a source of sly humor, then entrancing with his hefty first-act monologue.
—Shania Russell, Entertainment Weekly, 29 Sep. 2025
And the words, while sparse, move together with pauses and spaces to form a musical, entrancing pace or rhythm, one that is distinct from everyday speech and which the reader must be willing to follow.
—Brian Robert Moore
september 5, Literary Hub, 5 Sep. 2025
Yet there’s something entrancing about his question.
—Hua Hsu, New Yorker, 18 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for entrancing
Adjective
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The Tonale’s base price is appealing, but be sure to consider the high delivery charge and price leap from gasoline to PHEV.—
Mark Phelan,
USA Today,
27 Sep. 2025
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The Tonale’s base price is appealing, but be sure to consider the high delivery charge and price leap from gasoline to PHEV.—
Mark Phelan,
Freep.com,
25 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Since its debut in 2006, the NBC reality competition series has introduced the world to a variety of jaw-dropping acts — from young singers and gifted illusionists to charismatic puppeteers and dancing dogs.—
Skyler Caruso,
PEOPLE,
25 Sep. 2025
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Ellis has been cast as Bill Gibson, a charismatic, successful investment banker who is admired for being his firm’s highest-earning managing director.—
Rosy Cordero,
Deadline,
24 Sep. 2025
Verb
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Then the picture begins to blur before coming back into clear focus to reveal Novak, still enchanting at 92, standing in a room filled with her paintings.—
Jeremy Helligar,
People.com,
1 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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The research team also highlighted that sodium chemistries are attractive, yet sodium solid electrolytes show limited room-temperature ionic conductivity.—
Prabhat Ranjan Mishra,
Interesting Engineering,
27 Sep. 2025
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Oh, and home attendance ranked 28th of 30 teams, so evidently the product still wasn’t attractive enough.—
Miami Herald,
Miami Herald,
26 Sep. 2025
Verb
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This delicious jam is vibrant, not too sweet with pleasing herbaceous notes.—
Cathy Thomas,
Oc Register,
29 Sep. 2025
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Undisciplined by market competition and unable to profit by creating value for customers, socialist managers focused on pleasing politicians.—
Matthew Mitchell,
Twin Cities,
28 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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There’s a charming bit of irony in watching one of the most prolific and successful producers in the music industry fumble with his audio output.—
Stephen Daw,
Billboard,
1 Oct. 2025
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Catriona, the charming young heiress to a vast oil fortune, and her two year old son Adam, were brutally kidnapped at gunpoint outside a fish and chip shop in Fife.—
Jessica Radloff,
Glamour,
1 Oct. 2025
Verb
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The popular anime franchise Berserk, based on the manga created by Kentaro Miura, has been delighting fans since the 1990s.—
Chris Snellgrove,
Entertainment Weekly,
27 Sep. 2025
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Just as a waiter earns a big tip by delighting guests, businesses earn healthy profits by delighting customers.—
Boris Kontsevoi,
Forbes.com,
19 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Last year the two parties reinforced their bond with a capsule collection, which featured images centered on Lee Cohen’s seductive self-portraits.—
Sandra Salibian,
Footwear News,
24 Sep. 2025
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Convenience can be seductive, but in oncology, where the margin for error is minute, the cost of error, or incomplete or inaccurate information, is disastrous.—
Anna Forsythe,
Forbes.com,
18 Sep. 2025
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“Entrancing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/entrancing. Accessed 2 Oct. 2025.
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