Difference between Charming and Pleasing

What is the difference between Charming and Pleasing?

Charming as an adjective is pleasant, charismatic while Pleasing as an adjective is agreeable; giving pleasure, cheer, enjoyment or gratification.

Charming

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: pleasant, charismatic

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To seduce, persuade or fascinate someone or something.

Example sentence: Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.

Pleasing

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: Agreeable; giving pleasure, cheer, enjoyment or gratification.

Part of speech: noun

Definition: Sense of satisfaction, as in the phrase "to my pleasing."

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To make happy or satisfy; to give pleasure to.

Example sentence: There's no pleasing the British, or winning their favor. They simply hate politicians. All politicians. Hatred goes with politicians like mint sauce with lamb. It's as old as Parliaments.

We hope you now know whether to use Charming or Pleasing in your sentence.

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