What is another word for beguiled?

Pronunciation: [bɪɡˈa͡ɪld] (IPA)

The word "beguiled" refers to being charmed, enchanted, or deceived by someone or something. This word has many synonyms that can be used to convey a similar meaning. Some of the synonyms for "beguiled" include captivated, bewitched, mesmerized, entranced, infatuated, attracted, allured, lured, enticed, and seduced. Each of these words has a slightly different connotation that can be used in various contexts. For example, "captivated" is used to describe a deep and intense interest in something, while "seduced" implies being persuaded or tempted through manipulation or flattery. All in all, using synonyms can help to add variety and depth to your writing, making it more engaging and impactful.

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What are the opposite words for beguiled?

The word "beguiled" refers to a state where someone feels mesmerized or charmed by something. The closest antonyms to the word beguiled would be "repelled" or "disgusted." These words would indicate a feeling of being turned off or having an aversion towards something. Other antonyms that could be used for "beguiled" would be "distracted" or "bored." These words indicate a lack of interest or engagement towards the subject at hand. Overall, the antonyms of "beguiled" serve as a reminder of the importance of being aware and vigilant of our perspectives and emotions towards different situations.

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Usage examples for Beguiled

But Goody Vereker was not going to be beguiled into making herself agreeable.
"Somehow Good"
William de Morgan
With all her romantic and mystic qualities Zoe was at heart a shrewd American girl, and not one to be readily beguiled by any man, however fascinating.
"The Sins of Séverac Bablon"
Sax Rohmer
The Indian women sat out on the rock by the side of the pocket with dip-nets and ladled out the salmon, which had been beguiled by their instinct of pushing always up the stream into entering the fatal inclosure.
"Two Years in Oregon"
Wallis Nash

Famous quotes with Beguiled

  • I am a libertine, but I am not a nor a , and since I am compelled to set my apology alongside my vindication, I shall therefore say that it might well be possible that those who condemn me as unjustly as I have been might themselves be unable to offset the infamies by good works as clearly established as those I can contrast to my errors. I am a libertine, but three families residing in your area have for five years lived off my charity, and I have saved them from the farthest depths of poverty. I am a libertine, but I have saved a deserter from death, a deserter abandoned by his entire regiment and by his colonel. I am a libertine, but at Evry, with your whole family looking on, I saved a child—at the risk of my life—who was on the verge of being crushed beneath the wheels of a runaway horse-drawn cart, by snatching the child from beneath it. I am a libertine, but I have never compromised my wife’s health. Nor have I been guilty of the other kinds of libertinage so often fatal to children’s fortunes: have I ruined them by gambling or by other expenses that might have deprived them of, or even by one day foreshortened, their inheritance? Have I managed my own fortune badly, as long as I have had a say in the matter? In a word, did I in my youth herald a heart capable of the atrocities of which I today stand accused?... How therefore do you presume that, from so innocent a childhood and youth, I have suddenly arrived at the ultimate of premeditated horror? No, you do not believe it. And yet you who today tyrannize me so cruelly, you do not believe it either: your vengeance has beguiled your mind, you have proceeded blindly to tyrannize, but your heart knows mine, it judges it more fairly, and it knows full well it is innocent.
    Marquis de Sade
  • Lightly I sped when hope was high And youth beguiled the chase,— I follow, follow still: But I Shall never see her face.
    Frederick Locker-Lampson
  • In assuming that peace will be maintained, I assume also that no Great Power would shrink from its responsibilities. If there be a country, for example, one of the most extensive and wealthiest of empires in the world—if that country, from a perverse interpretation of its insular geographical position, turns an indifferent ear to the feelings and the fortunes of Continental Europe, such a course would, I believe, only end in its becoming an object of general plunder. So long as the power and advice of England are felt in the councils of Europe, peace, I believe, will be maintained, and maintained for a long period. Without their presence, war, as has happened before, and too frequently of late, seems to me to be inevitable. I speak on this subject with confidence to the citizens of London, because I know that they are men who are not ashamed of the Empire which their ancestors created; because I know that they are not ashamed of the noblest of human sentiments, now decried by philosophers—the sentiment of patriotism; because I know they will not be beguiled into believing that in maintaining their Empire they may forfeit their liberties. One of the greatest of Romans, when asked what were his politics, replied, . That would not make a bad programme for a British Ministry. It is one from which Her Majesty's advisers do not shrink.
    Benjamin Disraeli
  • Europeans have sometimes been beguiled by a despotism that comes concealed in the seductive form of an ideal – as it did in the cases of Hitler and Stalin. This fact may remind us that the possibility of despotism is remote neither in space nor in time.
    Kenneth Minogue
  • I'm wild again, beguiled again A simpering, whimpering child again; Bewitched, bothered and bewildered - am I.Couldn't sleep and wouldn't sleep When love came and told me, I shouldn't sleep; Bewitched, bothered and bewildered - am I. I'm wild again! beguiled again! A simpering, whimpering child again, Bewitched, bothered and bewildered am I.
    Lorenz Hart

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