taking
[adjective]
Synonyms:
- charming, attractive, beguiling, captivating, enchanting, engaging, fetching (informal), likable or likeable, prepossessing
[noun]
Synonyms:
- takings: revenue, earnings, income, proceeds, profits, receipts, returns, take

[TahlilGaran] English Synonym Dictionary ▲

taking adjective. ['teɪkɪŋ] L15.
[formed as TAKING noun + -ING².]
That takes; spec. (a) rare that seizes possession of something, rapacious; (b) that takes the fancy; captivating, charming, attractive; (c) blighting, blasting, pernicious; (d) infectious, catching.
■ M. Prior Phillis has such a taking way, She charms my very soul.

■ takingly adverb E17.

■ takingness noun M17.

[TahlilGaran] English Dictionary ▲

taking noun. ['teɪkɪŋ] ME.
[from TAKE verb + -ING¹.]
1. The action or process of TAKE verb; an instance of this. ME.
■ G. Boycott There had been a big score for the taking. Daily Telegraph The taking of aspirin by pregnant women.
b. A seizure or sudden attack of illness or pain (long obsolete exc. dial.). Formerly also, enchantment, esp. of a malign nature; malignant influence. M16.

2. That which is taken; spec. (a) prey, a catch, fish etc. caught at one time; (b) in pl., proceeds, business receipts or earnings; (c) (Printing, obsolete exc. Hist.) a portion of copy given to a compositor for setting at one time, a take. ME.
■ B. Rubens Half a day's takings in the shop..would amount to something like fifteen pounds.

3. a. Condition, situation, plight. Only in in a taking, in taking, at a taking, at taking, freq. with specifying word. obsolete exc. Scot. E16.
b. spec. A disturbed or agitated state of mind. Freq. in in a taking. arch. L16.
■ Ellis Peters They must be in a taking at all these changes we're seeing.

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