Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Filled with delight; enraptured.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Rapt; ravished; in a state of rapture or ecstasy.
Wiktionary
- adj. fascinated, enraptured
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Thrown into ecstasy; transported; enraptured.
Examples
“Despite this obstacle, young Ron became enrapt with music, first on piano, then the guitar by his early teens.”
The Huffington Post: Phil Ramone and Danielle Evin: Dog Ears Music: Volume 144
“It's why Smith's hedonistically enrapt souls appear anything but abject in their celluloid, silverprint and c-print paradises.”
“But Mr. Erwitt also has a gift for clicking off multiple photographs of a single scene, finding and preserving evanescent moments likely to leave the viewer alternately laughing or enrapt.”
“However much we preoccupy ourselves with the pictorial features of Silas' birds, the death and decomposition that she analogizes, and which holds each of us enrapt, is ultimately significant of the death and decomposition of the human self.”
The Huffington Post: G. Roger Denson: Holocaust and Redemption in the Photography of Susan Silas
“To put it in terms reflective of Silas's photographic process and subject, Silas had to find the entropy that would hold us enrapt, keep us from turning away.”
The Huffington Post: G. Roger Denson: Holocaust and Redemption in the Photography of Susan Silas
“At the age of 3, she became enrapt with the guitar and has been performing ever since.”
The Huffington Post: Phil Ramone and Danielle Evin: Dog Ears Music: Volume 135
“To all of us enrapt as ever, he taught us the quintessence of compassion.”
The Huffington Post: Now Is The Time for All Good Women to Come to the Aid of the Planet!
“Like the very best radio, they stay with you long after you've listened enrapt.”
“Explaining why "Mommy was kissing Santa Claus" to an inquisitive* 4-year old enrapt in the yuletide mythos is an unexpected challenge.”
“He noticed that his sweet baby brother, Carl, was lost in wonder, enrapt by changing colors as sunlight alternately flashed and faded through stained glass windows, through the purple cloaks and the crystalline halos depicted.”
Fictionaut: Yet another, as Icarus, waxless and featherless, falls
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘enrapt’.
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persnickety parlance
behoove, ebullient, insouciant, insipient, froth, quandary, quixotic, tendril, maktub, furrow, furl, anastrophe and 1076 more...
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Thrown - about tossed - Words
bal-; bol-; -bol; -ble and incau(gh)tious others
ballistic, ballad, symbol, bolide, ballet, problem, ball, parabola, parable, amphibole, boule, diabolical and 184 more...
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Skip-Bo!
A collection of random words I have acquired recently and wish to use in my vocablury.
countenance, polemic, bovine, debonair, contriver, odious, impotent, exulted, precluded, appeased, leavened, consonant and 4 more...
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Chamber Club Words of the Day(s)
These words have been used as the Word of the Day in Chamber Club 540 Toastmasters meetings.
sonorous, logy, convivial, abhorrence, presently, reticent, fantasy, imminent, zealot, ambition, narcissistic, thunderstruck and 7 more...
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words i should use more often
hotbed, logomania, whimsy, twee, nonplussed, indignation, enrapt
Tweets
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kalvin rapt; transported; enraptured: a violinist's enrapt audience. Jun 12, 2008