Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- v. Past tense of spellbind.
- adj. Entranced by or as if by a spell; fascinated.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Bound by or as if by a spell; entranced; rapt; fascinated.
Wiktionary
- adj. Fascinated by something; entranced as if by a spell.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Bound by, or as by, a spell.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. having your attention fixated as though by a spell
- adj. having your attention fixated as though by a spell
Examples
“Yeah, we stood around in spellbound silence while that demo was going on Paul.”
“A couple weeks ago, I finished reading his American Gods, a fascinating story of myth and fantasy that kept spellbound from the first page to the last one.”
“The yard was full of people, but nobody had as yet said a word; awe and wonder held everybody in spellbound silence.”
“I wasn't prepared to be quite as "spellbound" as Philip Pullman with The Seeing Stone because blurb hyperbole is starting to draw my attention lately and the book also had the pre-requisite word "Guardian" on the front cover.”
“Philip Pullman was "spellbound", Anne Fine was "so so jealous" and I was just mesmerised, start to finish.”
“They are "spellbound" by his nervous and patriotic eloquence.”
“I've had that new song 'spellbound' by Lacuna Coil in my had now all day Hey beautiful queen of dragons, so beautiful!”
“Maltese folk group leaves Indian crowd 'spellbound”
“Dr Anderson says the reading was a risk worth taking, and the one-man show performed by actor Rob Turnbull had the audience "spellbound".”
“Liebling's World War II dispatches are riveting, and I find myself as spellbound by his accounts of Sugar Ray Robinson as I am by his descriptions of the heaping dinner tables of Paris.”
A Conversation with Elizabeth D. Samet, author of Soldier's Heart
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘spellbound’.
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®emovies
Movies or TV shows where the titles are also common words, generally one-word titles.
lost, alien, bug, elephant, siege, gladiator, flock, captivity, piano, roots, freaks, moonstruck and 269 more...
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Words that are also movies
Unabashedly stolen from a comment made by courier12.
vertigo, serendipity, casablanca, psycho, jaws, fantasia, stagecoach, network, rocky, giant, platoon, unforgiven and 285 more...
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common UA vocab. in US
Interesting, there is a traditional vocabulary of an Ukrainian, that differs from vocabulary of average American. It would be nice to explore it.
jackdaw, incongruous, cassock, vivid, magpie, humdrum, amongst, wonder, wandering, wheedling, wheedle, osseous and 368 more...
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charms
all sorts of ...fortune, gnome, green, chance, luck, gheluc, success, good, spells, hypnotic, prosperity, blessing and 38 more...
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♥
ambrosia, inamorata, gossamer, lily-white, hummingbird, roucoulement, poppy, daisy, calypso, lunula, lamb, dove and 1526 more...
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katiad's Words
exquisite, obnoxious, noxious, extravaganza, whirlwind, whirling, wild, spinster, existential, chaos, zephyr, blasphemy and 310 more...
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sputnik
canoodle, span, hasten, discombobulate, sputnik, clod, encrusted, spit-shine, zeitgeist, landslide, laid, cherish and 350 more...
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favorite words
ennui, bonhomie, eschew, liaison, serendipity, lovely, dusk, kitten, epitome, sexy, beloved, darling and 396 more...
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KaeZoo's Words
flingers, unhinged, driven, flanked, arboreal, venerable, endearing, iconoclastic, fletcher, competent, fireproof, cavernous and 215 more...
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_mark's keywords ™
words that describe me or that i am focusing on.
( personal list )
more:
http://www.wordnik.com/lists/personas--2<...satirical, dark, enigmatic, androgyny, appreciative, opinionated, inquisitive, sensitive, nonchalant, acerbic, scientific, circumspective and 219 more...
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christy927's list
...all my favorite words...
chrysalis, mahogany, indigo, elysian, rubenesque, cataclysmic, scythe, archaic, gaelic, trollop, sycamore, canopy and 279 more...
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things i like (movie style)
complement to list "things i like," but there were too many movie-related words so i had to create a separate list.
julie taymor, stand by me, frida, all about eve, bette davis, edward norton, american history x, yann tiersen, amelie, audrey hepburn, christopher nolan, cidade de deus and 101 more...
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(Medical) Marijuana Strains
Names of various "medicinal" Cannabis strains, harvested from various sources.
grape ape, grape wreck, trainwreck, black domina, sweet wreck, cal-p, jack herer, purple princess, northern lights #5, amnesia haze, c5 haze, cambodian haze and 685 more...
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rebobinar's Words
unconscionable, spellbound, ineffable, apothecary, perspicacious, lamplight, glittering, noir, sagacity, manifold, iconoclastic, iconoclastic and 52 more...
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golem100's Words
bucolic, pusillanimous, interregnum, periphery, exegesis, antipathy, deleterious, cantankerous, anhydrous, tintinnabulous, grok, scabrous and 19 more...
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Pretty quirky
whimsy, sparkle, pebble, bubbles, starlight, moonbeam, glade, glow, acorn, demure, oak, oat and 81 more...
Tweets
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