charmed

comparative more charmed · superlative most charmed

1. Under a magic spell (cast by a charm); bewitched.

   Synonyms: ensorcelled, spellbound, under a spell, bespelled, bewitched, cursed, enchanted, ensorcelled

2. Having great good fortune, as though magically wrought.

   ‘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.’

   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

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   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, […]

   c. 1587–1588 (date written), [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

   Synonyms: fortunate, providential, serendipitous, fortuitous, fortunate, freak, happy, lucky

3. Impressed by the pleasantness of something.

   You are very gracious; I am charmed by your personality.

4. natural sciencesOf a particle: having nonzero charm.

1. participlepastsimple past and past participle of charm