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charmed life

charmed life

8 5.6
A life where a person seems very lucky and stays safe
  • noun
  • Informal
translation icon : vida de ensueño
  • She always seems to be in the right place at the right time; it's clear she leads a charmed life.

Gwendolyn Goode lives a charmed life as the owner of an occult shop in downtown Salem, MA.

Examples

  • Some people lead a charmed life and I'm one of them.

    Diana (2013)

  • Besides, you lead a charmed life.

    Ghost (1990)

  • Oh, I guess it has been a charmed life.

    Veronica Mars (2014)

  • What a charmed life it must be to star in the movies.

    Pearl (2022)

  • Well, you must lead a charmed life.

    Mannequin (1987)

  • I do not lead a charmed life, I can tell you that.

    Fiction book (1994)

  • I live a charmed life, I know.

    Blog text (13)

  • I've led a charmed life.

    Blog text (5)

  • You've obviously lived a very charmed life growing up on Fifth Avenue.

    The Nanny Diaries (2007)

  • Gwendolyn Goode lives a charmed life as the owner of an occult shop in downtown Salem, MA.

    cari can read

Synonyms

jammy life
vscharmed life
  • Slang
9.1

A comfortable life with good luck and little effort

emphasizes protection from misfortune rather than comfort or effortless good luck

Antonyms

unlucky
91 1.0

Having bad luck that causes problems

cursedness
  • Archaic
9.1

A state of being unlucky and thought to be under a bad spell

How Lucky

charmed life
  • Informal
8 5.6
fortunate
296 1.8
unlucky
91 1.0

Surface Forms

charmed life singular
charmed lives plural

Morphology

charm + life

The adjective 'charmed' readily conveys being enchanted or protected, so 'charmed life' is compositionally interpretable as a life protected by charm — i.e. unusually lucky or spared from harm. This straightforward adjective+noun composition maps well onto the provided meaning and would be predictable to a B1 learner who knows the constituent words.

Etymology

Charmed life comes from the idea of a charm, a small object or word people believed would keep them safe. If someone has a charmed life, it means they seem unusually 'lucky' or 'protected' from harm.