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Charming vs Thrilling - What's the difference?

charming | thrilling |

As adjectives the difference between charming and thrilling

is that charming is pleasant, charismatic while thrilling is causing the feeling of a sudden excitement.

As verbs the difference between charming and thrilling

is that charming is while thrilling is .

As nouns the difference between charming and thrilling

is that charming is the casting of a magical charm while thrilling is a thrill.

charming

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • pleasant, charismatic
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  • delightful in a playful way which avoids responsibility or seriousness, as if attracting through a magical charm

    • Antonyms

    * (pleasant) dull

    Synonyms

    * (pleasant) charismatic, smart, witty * (delightful) silly

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The casting of a magical charm.
  • * (Thomas Middleton)
    • 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.

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    thrilling

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Causing the feeling of a sudden excitement.
  • * , chapter=5
    • , title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=He was thinking; but the glory of the song, the swell from the great organ, the clustered lights, […], the height and vastness of this noble fane, its antiquity and its strength—all these things seemed to have their part as causes of the thrilling emotion that accompanied his thoughts.}}

    Synonyms

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    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A thrill.
  • * (William Hope Hodgson), The Night Land
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