disarming

English

Pronunciation

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Adjective

disarming (comparative more disarming, superlative most disarming)

1. Charming; likely to put one at ease.

   a disarming smile

   • 2014 January 21, Hermione Hoby, “Julia Roberts interview for August: Osage County – 'I might actually go to hell for this ...': Julia Roberts reveals why her violent, Oscar-nominated performance in August: Osage County made her feel 'like a terrible person' [print version: 'I might actually go to hell for this ...' (18 January 2014, p. R4)]”, in The Daily Telegraph (Review)‎^[1]:

     Foremost in her arsenal is that smile – so enormous and so absurdly disarming that someone should have worked out a way to harness its power into international conflict resolution.

Derived terms

• disarmingly
• disarmingness

Translations

charming; likely to put one at one's ease

• Danish: afvæbnende
• Dutch: ontwapenend (nl)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: avvæpnende

  Nynorsk: avvæpnande

Verb

disarming

1. present participle and gerund of disarm

References

• “disarming”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.

Anagrams

• admirings, graminids