Word Meanings - FASCINATE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. To influence in an uncontrollable manner; to operate on by some powerful or irresistible charm; to bewitch; to enchant. It has been almost universally believed that . . . serpents can stupefy and fascinate the prey which they are desirous to

Additional info about word: FASCINATE

1. To influence in an uncontrollable manner; to operate on by some powerful or irresistible charm; to bewitch; to enchant. It has been almost universally believed that . . . serpents can stupefy and fascinate the prey which they are desirous to obtain. Griffith . 2. To excite and allure irresistibly or powerfully; to charm; to captivate, as by physical or mental charms. there be none of the passions that have been noted to fascinate or bewhich but love and envy. Bacon. Syn. -- To charm; enrapture; captivate; enchant; bewitch; attract.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of FASCINATE)

• Attract
• Influence
• induce
• dispose
• incline
• tempt
• prompt
• allure
• charm
• fascinate
• invite
• entice
• Bewitch
• Enchant
• captivate
• entrance
• Enamor
• Captivate
• enslave
• endear
• bewitch
• enchain
• Enrapture
• Beatify
• enchant
• transport
• attract
• ravish

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of FASCINATE)

• Trend
• diverge
• ascend
• deter
• rise
• indispose
• disincline
• Slave
• prevent
• dissuade

Related words: (words related to FASCINATE)

• INVITER
  One who, or that which, invites.
• DISPOSEMENT
  Disposal. Goodwin.
• PROMPT-BOOK
  The book used by a prompter of a theater.
• ASCENDANCY; ASCENDANCE
  See ASCENDENCY
• RAVISHER
  One who ravishes .
• INDUCER
  One who, or that which, induces or incites.
• PREVENTATIVE
  That which prevents; -- incorrectly used instead of preventive.
• TEMPTER
  One who tempts or entices; especially, Satan, or the Devil, regarded as the great enticer to evil. "Those who are bent to do wickedly will never want tempters to urge them on." Tillotson. So glozed the Tempter, and his proem tuned. Milton.
• CAPTIVATE
  1. To take prisoner; to capture; to subdue. Their woes whom fortune captivates. Shak. 2. To acquire ascendancy over by reason of some art or attraction; to fascinate; to charm; as, Cleopatra captivated Antony; the orator captivated all hearts.
• TRANSPORTING
  That transports; fig., ravishing. Your transporting chords ring out. Keble.
• TEMPTING
  Adapted to entice or allure; attractive; alluring; seductive; enticing; as, tempting pleasures. -- Tempt"ing*ly, adv. -- Tempt"ing*ness, n.
• ASCENDENCY
  Governing or controlling influence; domination; power. An undisputed ascendency. Macaulay. Custom has an ascendency over the understanding. Watts. Syn. -- Control; authority; influence; sway; dominion; prevalence; domination.
• ATTRACTABILITY
  The quality or fact of being attractable. Sir W. Jones.
• TRANSPORTAL
  Transportation; the act of removing from one locality to another. "The transportal of seeds in the wool or fur of quadrupeds." Darwin.
• TRANSPORTABILITY
  The quality or state of being transportable.
• DISPOSE
  Etym: 1. To distribute and put in place; to arrange; to set in order; as, to dispose the ships in the form of a crescent. Who hath disposed the whole world Job xxxiv. 13. All ranged in order and disposed with grace. Pope. The rest themselves in
• DISPOSEDNESS
  The state of being disposed or inclined; inclination; propensity.
• ATTRACTILE
  Having power to attract.
• PROMPTLY
  In a prompt manner.
• ENSLAVEMENT
  The act of reducing to slavery; state of being enslaved; bondage; servitude. A fresh enslavement to their enemies. South.
• IMPREVENTABLE
  Not preventable; invitable.
• METEMPTOSIS
  The suppression of a day in the calendar to prevent the date of the new moon being set a day too late, or the suppression of the bissextile day once in 134 years. The opposite to this is the proemptosis, or the addition of a day every 330 years,
• MISTRANSPORT
  To carry away or mislead wrongfully, as by passion. Bp. Hall.
• APPRENTICESHIP
  1. The service or condition of an apprentice; the state in which a person is gaining instruction in a trade or art, under legal agreement. 2. The time an apprentice is serving (sometimes seven years, as from the age of fourteen to twenty-one).
• IMPREVENTABILITY
  The state or quality of being impreventable.
• INDETERMINABLE
  Not determinable; impossible to be determined; not to be definitely known, ascertained, defined, or limited. -- In`de*ter"mi*na*bly, adv.