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charming personality

charming personality

1 2.5
A friendly, attractive way of behaving that makes people like you
  • noun
translation icon : personalidad encantadora
  • Everyone was drawn to her charming personality, making her the life of the party.

And I thought, here's a girl from Atlanta with a warm, Southern charming personality.

Examples

  • I always associated them as being one and the same, but what interested me the most was the fact that psychopaths can be fully functioning in society with a disarming and charming personality, while sociopaths are portrayed in this article as not.

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  • I thought it was my charming personality.

  • Later on I'll introduce you to that charming personality.

  • What a charming personality you've got there.

  • Nevertheless, most of the women who adore romantic clothing styles have friendly faces and charming personalities.

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  • Kalaydjian is so convincing, devoted to Armenia, Armenian issues, and the Armenian nation, and she has such a charming personality that he just could not refuse her request to contribute articles to Zartonk, he explained.

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  • His charming personality won over many new friends at the conference.

  • She has a charming personality that makes people feel comfortable around her.

Synonyms

charisma
vscharming personality
58 5.1

A strong charm that makes people like and trust someone

is milder, focusing on being attractive and pleasant without inspiring devotion
likability
vscharming personality
  • US
13 3.5

How pleasant and friendly someone or something seems to other people

is more about being unusually attractive and pleasant to others
congeniality
vscharming personality
11 6.5

Being pleasant and friendly so people enjoy your company

is focused on general attractiveness and pleasantness rather than compatibility
personal appeal
vscharming personality
1 3.7

A natural charm that makes people like someone

is focused on being attractive and pleasant without emphasising influence
affability
vscharming personality
1 5.3

A friendly, gentle way that makes people feel comfortable

is about attractive pleasantness rather than just being easy to talk to
warm personality
vscharming personality
1 2.7

A friendly, kind way of behaving that makes people feel comfortable

is more about being especially attractive and pleasant than only warmth
personableness
vscharming personality
7.2

Being friendly and pleasant so people enjoy being with you

is about being attractive and pleasant to others generally

Antonyms

215 1.0

Not nice and causing discomfort or unhappiness

An unpleasant person who is hard to get along with

How Charming

charismatic
88 5.2
magnetic
16 4.4
charming personality
1 2.5
likeable
  • UK
1 1.0

Surface Forms

Morphology

charming + personality

The phrase combines 'charming' (attractive, pleasant) with 'personality' (one's characteristic patterns of behavior and emotion), so the meaning—an especially pleasant or attractive character—is directly derivable from the constituents. This adjective + noun composition is a standard, cross-linguistically common pattern, so a B1 learner who knows both words will readily understand the MWE.

Etymology

The phrase charming personality comes from the old idea of a charm, a small magic object or short words that made people like someone, and from personality, meaning the way a person behaves. So a person with a charming personality seems to have that 'charm', which is why the phrase means 'especially attractive and pleasant to others'.