CHARISMATIC

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does charismatic mean? 

• CHARISMATIC (adjective)
  The adjective CHARISMATIC has 1 sense:

1. possessing an extraordinary ability to attract

  Familiarity information: CHARISMATIC used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CHARISMATIC (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Possessing an extraordinary ability to attract

Synonyms:

charismatic; magnetic

Context example:

a magnetic personality

Similar:

attractive (pleasing to the eye or mind especially through beauty or charm)

Derivation:

charisma (a personal attractiveness or interestingness that enables you to influence others)

 Context examples 

The study in the journal PLOS Biology lists what the authors say are the world's 10 most charismatic animals: tigers, lions, elephants, giraffes, leopards, pandas, cheetahs, polar bears, gray wolves and gorillas.

(Study: Popularity of Wildlife Can Harm Public's Perception, VOA)

Elephants, as well as other large, charismatic animals such as tigers, monkeys and civet cats, are under attack from hunters and poachers.

(Overhunting of large animals has catastrophic effects on trees, NSF)

In love, you will be your most charismatic and captivating.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

Emperor penguins are some of the most striking and charismatic animals on Earth, but a study by scientists at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution has found that a warming climate may render the penguins extinct by the end of this century.

(Unless warming is slowed, emperor penguins will march toward extinction, National Science Foundation)