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adjective
- 1. delightful; entrancing: "she looked ravishing"
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adjective. literary uk / ˈræv.ɪ.ʃɪŋ / us / ˈræv.ɪ.ʃɪŋ / Add to word list. very beautiful: She looked ravishing/She was a ravishing sight in her wedding dress. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Attractive. adorable. adorably. adorbs. aesthetically. delicate. disarmingly. distinguished. dreamy. lovable. lovably. loveliness. lovely.
The meaning of RAVISHING is unusually attractive, pleasing, or striking. How to use ravishing in a sentence. ravishing or ravenous?
Someone, usually a woman, called ravishing is “stunningly beautiful.”. Toravish someone historically meant to “plunder” or “violently seize and rape a woman,” but in contemporary speech it refers to wanting passionate, consensual intercourse with a person.
adjective. If you describe someone or something as ravishing, you mean that they are very beautiful. [literary] She looked ravishing. ...driving through the ravishing scenery of Cumbria and Yorkshire. Synonyms: enchanting, beautiful, lovely, stunning [informal] More Synonyms of ravishing. ravishingly graded adverb [ADVERB adjective]
The adjective ravishing describes something or someone of exceptional beauty. If you say the dress your friend picked for the prom is ravishing, you mean it's beautiful and she looks beautiful in it.
Definition of ravishing adjective in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
: to overcome with emotion (such as joy or delight) ravished by the scenic beauty. c. : rape entry 1 sense 1. 2. : plunder, rob. ravisher noun. ravishment. ˈra-vish-mənt. noun. Synonyms. assault. force. rape. violate. See all Synonyms & Antonyms in Thesaurus. Examples of ravish in a Sentence.
