CAPTIVATED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does captivated mean? 

• CAPTIVATED (adjective)
  The adjective CAPTIVATED has 2 senses:

1. strongly attracted

2. filled with wonder and delight

  Familiarity information: CAPTIVATED used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CAPTIVATED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Strongly attracted

Synonyms:

captivated; charmed

Similar:

loving (feeling or showing love and affection)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Filled with wonder and delight

Synonyms:

beguiled; captivated; charmed; delighted; enthralled; entranced

Similar:

enchanted (influenced as by charms or incantations)

 Context examples 

But she was so affectionate and sweet-natured, and had such a pleasant manner of being both sly and shy at once, that she captivated me more than ever.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Not that my fancy was much captivated by the idea of long chimneys and clouds of smoke—"but," I argued, "Thornfield will, probably, be a good way from the town."

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Was it a new circumstance for a man of first-rate abilities to be captivated by very inferior powers?

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

The mysterious bright spots on Ceres, which have captivated both the Dawn science team and the public, reveal evidence of Ceres' past subsurface ocean, and indicate that, far from being a dead world, Ceres is surprisingly active.

(Bright Areas on Ceres Suggest Geologic Activity, NASA)

Her father, captivated by youth and beauty, and that appearance of good humour which youth and beauty generally give, had married a woman whose weak understanding and illiberal mind had very early in their marriage put an end to all real affection for her.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)