| charming | | |
| adj. | 1. charming | pleasing or delighting.; "endowed with charming manners"; "a charming little cottage"; "a charming personality" |
| ~ pleasing | giving pleasure and satisfaction.; "a pleasing piece of news"; "pleasing in manner and appearance" |
| adj. | 2. charming, magic, magical, sorcerous, witching, wizard, wizardly | possessing or using or characteristic of or appropriate to supernatural powers.; "charming incantations"; "magic signs that protect against adverse influence"; "a magical spell"; "'tis now the very witching time of night"; "wizard wands"; "wizardly powers" |
| ~ supernatural | not existing in nature or subject to explanation according to natural laws; not physical or material.; "supernatural forces and occurrences and beings" |
| enchanting | | |
| adj. | 1. bewitching, captivating, enchanting, enthralling, entrancing, fascinating | capturing interest as if by a spell.; "bewitching smile"; "Roosevelt was a captivating speaker"; "enchanting music"; "an enthralling book"; "antique papers of entrancing design"; "a fascinating woman" |
| ~ attractive | pleasing to the eye or mind especially through beauty or charm.; "a remarkably attractive young man"; "an attractive personality"; "attractive clothes"; "a book with attractive illustrations" |
| gorgeous | | |
| adj. | 1. gorgeous | dazzlingly beautiful.; "a gorgeous Victorian gown" |
| ~ beautiful | delighting the senses or exciting intellectual or emotional admiration.; "a beautiful child"; "beautiful country"; "a beautiful painting"; "a beautiful theory"; "a beautiful party" |
| striking | | |
| n. (event) | 1. contact, impinging, striking | the physical coming together of two or more things.; "contact with the pier scraped paint from the hull" |
| ~ happening, natural event, occurrence, occurrent | an event that happens. |
| ~ collision, hit | (physics) a brief event in which two or more bodies come together.; "the collision of the particles resulted in an exchange of energy and a change of direction" |
| ~ interlocking, meshing, mesh, engagement | contact by fitting together.; "the engagement of the clutch"; "the meshing of gears" |
| ~ flick | a light sharp contact (usually with something flexible).; "he gave it a flick with his finger"; "he felt the flick of a whip" |
| ~ impact | the striking of one body against another. |
| ~ touch, touching | the event of something coming in contact with the body.; "he longed for the touch of her hand"; "the cooling touch of the night air" |
| n. (act) | 2. hit, hitting, striking | the act of contacting one thing with another.; "repeated hitting raised a large bruise"; "after three misses she finally got a hit" |
| ~ touching, touch | the act of putting two things together with no space between them.; "at his touch the room filled with lights" |
| ~ contusion | the action of bruising.; "the bruise resulted from a contusion" |
| ~ crash, smash | the act of colliding with something.; "his crash through the window"; "the fullback's smash into the defensive line" |
| ~ bunt | (baseball) the act of hitting a baseball lightly without swinging the bat. |
| ~ fly ball, fly | (baseball) a hit that flies up in the air. |
| ~ ground ball, groundball, grounder, hopper | (baseball) a hit that travels along the ground. |
| ~ header | (soccer) the act of hitting the ball with your head. |
| ~ scorcher, screamer | a very hard hit ball. |
| ~ plunker, plunk | (baseball) hitting a baseball so that it drops suddenly. |
| adj. | 3. dramatic, spectacular, striking | sensational in appearance or thrilling in effect.; "a dramatic sunset"; "a dramatic pause"; "a spectacular display of northern lights"; "it was a spectacular play"; "his striking good looks always created a sensation" |
| ~ impressive | making a strong or vivid impression.; "an impressive ceremony" |
| adj. | 4. outstanding, prominent, salient, spectacular, striking | having a quality that thrusts itself into attention.; "an outstanding fact of our time is that nations poisoned by anti semitism proved less fortunate in regard to their own freedom"; "a new theory is the most prominent feature of the book"; "salient traits"; "a spectacular rise in prices"; "a striking thing about Picadilly Circus is the statue of Eros in the center"; "a striking resemblance between parent and child" |
| ~ conspicuous | obvious to the eye or mind.; "a tower conspicuous at a great distance"; "wore conspicuous neckties"; "made herself conspicuous by her exhibitionistic preening" |
| hostage | | |
| n. (person) | 1. hostage, surety | a prisoner who is held by one party to insure that another party will meet specified terms. |
| ~ captive, prisoner | a person who is confined; especially a prisoner of war. |
| quarry | | |
| n. (person) | 1. fair game, prey, quarry, target | a person who is the aim of an attack (especially a victim of ridicule or exploitation) by some hostile person or influence.; "he fell prey to muggers"; "everyone was fair game"; "the target of a manhunt" |
| ~ victim | an unfortunate person who suffers from some adverse circumstance. |
| n. (artifact) | 2. pit, quarry, stone pit | a surface excavation for extracting stone or slate.; "a British term for `quarry' is `stone pit'" |
| ~ chalk pit, chalkpit | a quarry for chalk. |
| ~ excavation | a hole in the ground made by excavating. |
| ~ gravel pit | a quarry for gravel. |
| n. (animal) | 3. prey, quarry | animal hunted or caught for food. |
| ~ animal, animate being, beast, creature, brute, fauna | a living organism characterized by voluntary movement. |
| v. (consumption) | 4. quarry | extract (something such as stones) from or as if from a quarry.; "quarry marble" |
| ~ quarrying | the extraction of building stone or slate from an open surface quarry. |
| ~ exploit, tap | draw from; make good use of.; "we must exploit the resources we are given wisely" |
| ~ cut into, delve, dig, turn over | turn up, loosen, or remove earth.; "Dig we must"; "turn over the soil for aeration" |
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