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- DictionaryRav·ish·ing/ˈraviSHiNG/
adjective
- 1. delightful; entrancing: "she looked ravishing"
The meaning of RAVISHING is unusually attractive, pleasing, or striking. How to use ravishing in a sentence. ravishing or ravenous?
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. lovably. loveliness. lovely. lusciously.
Someone, usually a woman, called ravishing is “stunningly beautiful.” To ravish 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.
1. a. : to seize and take away by violence. b. : 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.
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.
Define ravishing. ravishing synonyms, ravishing pronunciation, ravishing translation, English dictionary definition of ravishing. adj. Extremely attractive; entrancing. rav′ish·ing·ly adv. American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition.
verb (used with object) to fill with strong emotion, especially joy. Synonyms: captivate, delight, enthrall, transport, enrapture. to seize and carry off by force. to carry off (a woman) by force. to rape (a woman). ravish.
