1. (Vieux) Qui enlève par force. Un loup ravissant.
2. Moderne : très séduisant(e) : qui vous ravit d'admiration.
1. Delighting the senses or exciting intellectual or emotional admiration.
2. Aesthetically pleasing.
3. (Of weather) Highly enjoyable; very pleasant; SYN. fine.
ETYM Old Fren. gorgias beautiful, glorious, vain, luxurious; cf. Old Fren. gorgias ruff, neck handkerchief, and French gorge throat, and se pengorger to assume airs. Related to Gorge.
Dazzlingly beautiful.