ENTRANCED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does entranced mean? 

• ENTRANCED (adjective)
  The adjective ENTRANCED has 1 sense:

1. filled with wonder and delight

  Familiarity information: ENTRANCED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ENTRANCED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Filled with wonder and delight

Synonyms:

beguiled; captivated; charmed; delighted; enthralled; entranced

Similar:

enchanted (influenced as by charms or incantations)

 Context examples 

Then he stood staring as if forgetting us, so utterly entranced was he by what he saw.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Hush! say nothing—my heart is full of delight—my senses are entranced—let the time I marked pass in peace.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

I gazed entranced, till the boat ran into the wind and the flapping sail warned me I was not attending to my duties.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

These visions faded when I perused, for the first time, those poets whose effusions entranced my soul and lifted it to heaven.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

He was entranced by illumination, and did not hear the Bughouse, whispered by Jim, nor see the anxiety on his sister's face, nor notice the rotary motion of Bernard Higginbotham's finger, whereby he imparted the suggestion of wheels revolving in his brother-in-law's head.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

It passed rapidly, as may be supposed, to one entranced as I was; and yet it gave me so many occasions for knowing Steerforth better, and admiring him more in a thousand respects, that at its close I seemed to have been with him for a much longer time.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Our professors would gladly have stayed there all day, so entranced were they by this opportunity of studying the life of a prehistoric age.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The strong blast and the soft breeze; the rough and the halcyon day; the hours of sunrise and sunset; the moonlight and the clouded night, developed for me, in these regions, the same attraction as for them—wound round my faculties the same spell that entranced theirs.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)