Definitions
Etymologies
- From en- + trance ("daze") (Wiktionary)
Examples
“He has left to Egypt as good as spin entranced, mesmerized, drugged by Cleopatra.”
“They were entranced from the moment they saw her movie poster.”
“I absolutely loved this book and was entranced from the moment I started reading.”
“The reader is entranced from the moment he is introduced to the young cannibal Aruanã until the story ends with Amilcar da Silva gazing from a Brasília skyscraper at the vast sertão, the heart of the country that was unconquerable for nearly five centuries.”
“And how they were suckered into even thinking about it .... let alone being 'entranced' ...”
“Lyne has the blessing of the ultimate Nabokov purist, the late novelist's son Dmitri, and the project seems to be a long-term labor of love: he became "entranced" by the novel 10 years ago.”
“Be "entranced" by this moaning indie-bollocks if you will, but I for one couldn't give a toss about this or any other Saddle Creek band.”
“To tell you the truth, I’m kind of entranced with this worldview.”
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“You are inside a cocoon spun tightly by a culture entranced by wordplay and trickster folly.”
“A quarter of a century ago, at the National Gallery in Washington, where I encountered David Smith's sculptures for the first time in my life, I was simply entranced by the strangeness and novelty of the experience.”
The Huffington Post: Edward Goldman: Brutal and Delicate: Artists Throw Punches
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘entranced’.
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Dash's list
Words of interest.
cacogen, fricatrice, destrier, swoon, multiverse, haggard, entranced, entheogen, passionate, ascendant, conciliator, bandylegged and 34 more...
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newGRE
mostly from magoosh
imbue, verge on, nonchalant, deliberate, timorous, futile, provisional, dissect, checked, tinged, alluring, visionary and 1046 more...
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i_am_scifi's Words
asshat, charlatan, podcast, geek, amazonian, parlez, defile, menagerie, perplex, gotham, metropolis, ghoul and 131 more...
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A list
clench, shudder, clamp, twisting, sharply, thrusting, crashing, pulsing, curling, thrumming, rippling, wrench and 94 more...
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Eilonwy's Words
edify, kindred spirit, verisimilitude, etymology, epitome, extemporaneous, eccentric, illuminate, renaissance, resplendent, dichotomy, tranquility and 75 more...
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If she's a lady, I'm a Vermicious Knid
Words from Willy Wonka.
vermicious, bucket, salt, TV, beauregarde, gloop, golden ticket, nit, golden egg, gobstobber, everlasting, fizzy and 29 more...
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Nabokov's Lolita
words I learned during reading Lolita
etiolated, platitudinous, obscene, philistine, qualms, lavish, prude, forego, ineptly, unswervingly, tempest, demented and 38 more...
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