ravishing
adjective
extremely beautiful or attractive; enchanting; entrancing.
ravishingly
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a word derived from
ravishing.
Example Sentences
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Great artists major in defiance and minor in delusion: You will want to see what I have to offer, and love it, even if it is unfamiliar, disquieting and as ravishingly uncommercial as “Architecton.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 2, 2025
Stephen Holden from the New York Times described the romantic period drama as "ravishingly beautiful".
From BBC ● Dec. 30, 2023
Another sometime Mountain Goats contributor, Canada’s Owen Pallett, finally released his long-delayed album Island, which is ravishingly worth the wait.
From Slate ● Dec. 4, 2020
The third book in the trilogy, “Outside Over There,” published in 1981, covers its darkness of theme with ravishingly beautiful, painterly art.
From New York Times ● Feb. 14, 2019
“A ravishingly lovely lady, who exclaimed, with a cry of rapture, ‘At last!
From "Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott
