Amusing vs Charming - What's the difference?
amusing | charming |
Entertaining.
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Funny, hilarious.
pleasant, charismatic
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delightful in a playful way which avoids responsibility or seriousness, as if attracting through a magical charm
The casting of a magical charm.
* (Thomas Middleton)
As verbs the difference between amusing and charming
is that amusing is while charming is .As adjectives the difference between amusing and charming
is that amusing is entertaining while charming is pleasant, charismatic.As a noun charming is
the casting of a magical charm.amusing
English
Verb
(head)Adjective
(en adjective)citation, passage=‘It's rather like a beautiful Inverness cloak one has inherited. Much too good to hide away, so one wears it instead of an overcoat and pretends it's an amusing new fashion.’}}
citation, passage=They seem amusing on the first day of Christmas, daft on the second, embarrassing on the third. By the twelfth they're in landfill. For 30 seconds of dubious entertainment, or a hedonic stimulus that lasts no longer than a nicotine hit, we commission the use of materials whose impacts will ramify for generations.}}
Synonyms
* See also * See alsoAntonyms
* unamusingDerived terms
* amusingnesscharming
English
Adjective
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Antonyms
* (pleasant) dullSynonyms
* (pleasant) charismatic, smart, witty * (delightful) sillyVerb
(head)Noun
(en noun)- They denied me often flour, barm and milk, / Goose-grease and tar, when I ne'er hurt their charmings , / Their brewlocks, nor their batches, nor forespoke / Any of their breedings.