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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | enchanted, fascinated |
| Synonyms: | agape, amazed, bemused, bewildered, bewitched, breathless, captivated, caught up, charmed, enthralled, gripped, held, hooked, mesmerized, open-mouthed, petrified, possessed, rapt, transfixed, transported, under a spell |
| Antonyms: | disenchanted, disinterested |
| Main Entry: | spellbind |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | grip |
| Synonyms: | arrest, catch up, compel, engross, enthrall, fascinate, hold, hypnotize, involve, mesmerize, rivet, transfix |
| Main Entry: | bewitched |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | charmed |
| Synonyms: | captivated, enamored, enchanted, enraptured, ensorcelled, entranced, fallen for, fascinated, gaga about, have a bug in one's ear, have a thing about, head over heels, hooked, hung up, mad about, mesmerized, possessed, spellbound, transformed, turned on, under a spell |
| Antonyms: | disenchanted, disgusted, turned off |
| Main Entry: | immersed |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | deeply involved with |
| Synonyms: | absorbed, bound-up, buried, busy, consumed, deep, eat sleep and breathe, engaged, engrossed, intent, into*, mesmerized, occupied, preoccupied, rapt, spellbound, taken up, tied up, turned on, wrapped up |
| Antonyms: | ignorant, neglectful, negligent |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | infatuated |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | in love with; obsessed |
| Synonyms: | beguiled, besotted, bewitched, captivated, carried away, charmed, crazy about, enamored, enraptured, far gone on, fascinated, foolish, inflamed, intoxicated, possessed, seduced, silly*, smitten, spellbound, under a spell |
| Antonyms: | despising, disenchanted, hating |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | lost |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | distracted, dreaming |
| Synonyms: | absent, absentminded, absorbed, abstracted, bemused, bewildered, distrait, dreamy, engrossed, entranced, faraway, feeble, going in circles, ignorant, inconscient, musing, perplexed, preoccupied, rapt, spellbound, taken in, taken up, unconscious, wasted |
| Antonyms: | attentive, aware, cognizant |
| Main Entry: | magic/magical |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | bewitching, charming |
| Synonyms: | bewitched, charismatic, clairvoyant, conjuring, demoniac, diabolic, eerie, enchanted, enchanting, ensorcelled, entranced, entrancing, extraordinary, fascinating, fiendish, ghostly, haunted, imaginary, magnetic, marvelous, miraculous, mysterious, mystic, mythical, necromantic, occult, otherworldly, parapsychological, runic, sorcerous, spectral, spellbinding, spellbound, spiritualistic, spooky, telekinetic, thaumaturgic, tranced, uncanny, unusual, weird, witching, witchlike, wizardly, wonderful |
| Antonyms: | normal, unmoving |
| Main Entry: | motionless |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | calm, not moving |
| Synonyms: | apoplectic, at a standstill, at rest, becalmed, dead, deadlocked, deathly, firm, fixed, frozen, halted, immobile, immotile, inanimate, inert, lifeless, numb, palsied, paralyzed, petrified, quiescent, quiet, spellbound, stable, stagnant, stalled, standing, static, stationary, steadfast, still, stock-still, torpid, transfixed, unmovable, unmoved, unmoving |
| Antonyms: | active, busy, lively, mobile, moving |
| Main Entry: | preoccupied |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | busy; mentally caught up in something |
| Synonyms: | absent, absent-minded, absorbed, abstracted, airheaded, asleep, bemused, bugged, daydreaming, deep*, distracted, distrait, engaged, engrossed, faraway, fascinated, forgetful, have on the brain, heedless, hung up, immersed, inconscient, intent, lost, lost in thought, mooning, moony, oblivious, obsessed, rapt, removed, spellbound, spread out, taken up, unaware, woolgathering, wrapped-up |
| Notes: | occupied means in use or seized and controlled as by military invasion; preoccupied means deeply absorbed in thought or having compulsive concern with something |
| Antonyms: | observant, thoughtful, unoccupied |
* = informal/non-formal usage
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