Word.ws English Dictionary

bewitchingly

bewitchingly adverb: in a bewitching manner.

Adverb

bewitchingly (comparative more bewitchingly, superlative most bewitchingly)

  1. In a bewitching manner.
    • In her aspect, manners, voice, there is something bewitchingly attractive; her countenance, [...]1808, Sarah Harriet Burney, Geraldine Fauconberg, →OCLC, →OL, page 176
    • Of all that the sky presents there is perhaps no one object so bewitchingly beautiful as the evening star at its largest phasis.1844, Warren Burton, The Scenery-shower, with Word-paintings of the Beautiful, …, William D. Ticknor & Co., →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 107

Examples of bewitchingly in a sentence

  • And here was a man, decidedly good-looking—Jane and Susan Green call him bewitchingly handsome—I suppose they're two of the ladies he pretends would [...]1847, Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights, Smith, Elder & Co., page 401:
  • I thought her bewitchingly pretty, and wanted to possess her; [...]1875, W.C. Russell, Jilted! Or, my Uncle's Scheme, volume 3, Sampson Low, page 60:
  • Julie was beautiful, bewitchingly beautiful—a painter's fancy [...]1877, Spoken in Anger., volume 3, Tinsley Brothers, →OCLC, →OL, page 26:
  • Her countenance has been in frequent varied phraseology described as bewitchingly lovely.1893, James Adams, Burns's "Chloris”, Morison Brothers, →LCCN, →OL, page 25:

Forms of bewitchingly

comparativemore bewitchingly
superlativemost bewitchingly

Origin of bewitchingly

From bewitching + -ly.

Questions about bewitchingly

What does bewitchingly mean?
Bewitchingly means in a bewitching manner.
How do you use bewitchingly in a sentence?
And here was a man, decidedly good-looking—Jane and Susan Green call him bewitchingly handsome—I suppose they're two of the ladies he pretends would [...]
What part of speech is bewitchingly?
Bewitchingly is an adverb.

Words near bewitchingly in the dictionary

  1. bewitches
  2. bewitchest
  3. bewitcheth
  4. bewitchful
  5. bewitching
  6. bewitchingly
  7. bewitchingness
  8. bewitchings
  9. bewitchment
  10. bewitchments
  11. bewith

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: bewitchingly (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “bewitchingly.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/bewitchingly. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.