Prepossessing vs Enchanting - What's the difference?
prepossessing | enchanting | Synonyms |
Tending to invite favor; attracting confidence, favor, esteem, or love; attractive; as, a prepossessing manner.
*1836 , Dickens, Sketches by Boz ,
*:Our curate is a young gentleman of such prepossessing appearance, and fascinating manners, that within one month after his first appearance in the parish, half the young-lady inhabitants were melancholy with religion, and the other half, desponding with love.
*1852 , H. B. Stowe,
*:These natural graces in the quadroon are often united with beauty of the most dazzling kind, and in almost every case with a personal appearance prepossessing and agreeable.
Having the ability to enchant; charming, delightful.
* 2013 , Daniel Taylor, Rickie Lambert's debut goal gives England victory over Scotland'' (in ''The Guardian , 14 August 2013)[http://www.theguardian.com/football/2013/aug/14/england-scotland-international-friendly]
Prepossessing is a synonym of enchanting.
As adjectives the difference between prepossessing and enchanting
is that prepossessing is tending to invite favor; attracting confidence, favor, esteem, or love; attractive; as, a prepossessing manner while enchanting is having the ability to enchant; charming, delightful.As a verb enchanting is
.As a noun enchanting is
an act of enchantment.prepossessing
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(Webster 1913)Adjective
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*enchanting
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Verb
(head)Adjective
(en adjective)- "Fairytale" is an over-used word in football but there is certainly something enchanting about the Lambert story, rejected as a teenager at Liverpool and then playing at, among others, Blackpool, Rochdale, Stockport and Bristol Rovers.