SPELLBOUND

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does spellbound mean? 

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

1. having your attention fixated as though by a spell

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• SPELLBOUND (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Having your attention fixated as though by a spell

Synonyms:

fascinated; hypnotised; hypnotized; mesmerised; mesmerized; spell-bound; spellbound; transfixed

Similar:

enchanted (influenced as by charms or incantations)

 Context examples 

Holmes and I had listened spellbound to this extraordinary story.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

But since Mr. Rochester's visit it seemed spellbound: all the night I heard but three sounds at three long intervals,—a step creak, a momentary renewal of the snarling, canine noise, and a deep human groan.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

He next tried to get off his horse and make his way on foot, but again the laugh rang in his ears, and he found himself unable to move a step, and thus he was forced to abide spellbound.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

And straightway that coarse, swollen woman became a queen—the grandest, haughtiest queen that you could dream of—and she turned upon us with such words of fire, such lightning eyes and sweeping of her white hand, that she held us spellbound in our chairs.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)