RAVISHING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does ravishing mean? 

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

1. stunningly beautiful

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• RAVISHING (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Stunningly beautiful

Context example:

a ravishing blonde

Similar:

beautiful (delighting the senses or exciting intellectual or emotional admiration)

 Context examples 

"It's for Belle, of course, George always sends her some, but these are altogether ravishing," cried Annie, with a great sniff.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

To hear Barillo sing a love passage with the voice of an angel, and to hear Tetralani reply like another angel, and to hear it all accompanied by a perfect orgy of glowing and colorful music—is ravishing, most ravishing.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

And being no stranger to the art of war, I gave him a description of cannons, culverins, muskets, carabines, pistols, bullets, powder, swords, bayonets, battles, sieges, retreats, attacks, undermines, countermines, bombardments, sea fights, ships sunk with a thousand men, twenty thousand killed on each side, dying groans, limbs flying in the air, smoke, noise, confusion, trampling to death under horses’ feet, flight, pursuit, victory; fields strewed with carcases, left for food to dogs and wolves and birds of prey; plundering, stripping, ravishing, burning, and destroying.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

Your head is all I could ask, for that white bonnet with the rose is quite ravishing.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)