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enrapt

enrapt adjective: fascinated, enraptured.

Adjective

enrapt (comparative more enrapt, superlative most enrapt)

  1. (archaic, poetic) fascinated, enraptured
    • Come Hector, come, go back, / Thy wife hath dreamt, thy mother hath had viſions, / Caſſandra doth foreſee, and I my ſelfe, / Am like a prophet ſuddenly enrapt, / To tell thee that this day is ominous: / Therefore come back.c. 1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, The Famous Historie of Troylus and Cresseid. […] (First Quarto), London: […] G[eorge] Eld for R[ichard] Bonian and H[enry] Walley, […], published 1609...
    • The tune carried among the lanes and dwellings of the village, and naked feet pad-padded quickly up over dust and the grass; the audience distributed itself within and without the head-man's hut, and listened enrapt; and the head-man felt the glow of satisfaction that a London hostess feels when...1898, Cutcliffe Hyne, A Master of Fortune
    Synonyms:
    rapturous

Synonyms of enrapt

Forms of enrapt

comparativemore enrapt
superlativemost enrapt

Origin of enrapt

From en- + rapt.

Questions about enrapt

What does enrapt mean?
Enrapt means fascinated, enraptured.
What part of speech is enrapt?
Enrapt is an adjective.

Words near enrapt in the dictionary

  1. enramycin
  2. enrank
  3. enranked
  4. enranking
  5. enranks
  6. enrapt
  7. enrapture
  8. enraptured
  9. enrapturement
  10. enrapturements
  11. enrapturer

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