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say it: CHAHR-ming
charming is an adjective meaning "pleasing or delighting". It carries 2 recorded senses.
pleasing or delighting
“endowed with charming manners”
“a charming little cottage”
“a charming personality”
possessing or using or characteristic of or appropriate to supernatural powers
“charming incantations”
“magic signs that protect against adverse influence”
“a magical spell”
“'tis now the very witching time of night”
“wizard wands”
“wizardly powers”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for charming come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.