entrancing
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5.8
- adjective
- /ɪnˈtrænsɪŋ/
- Her entrancing performance captivated everyone in the audience from start to finish.
- the most entrancing
- so entrancing
- particularly entrancing
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- What is guaranteed is that those worlds are entrancing, fascinating and well worth a deep analysis.
Examples
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Particularly entrancing was the discussion of a small village that existed some thousand years ago.
Fiction book (1992) -
Genji conjured up ways of approaching this beautiful, entrancing, gentle power.
Academic text (1992) -
You were the most entrancing creature in the world, and I was at your feet.
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If you will simply admit that maybe she does behave like this, you will find her a delightful and entrancing thing.
Blog text (19) -
What is guaranteed is that those worlds are entrancing, fascinating and well worth a deep analysis.
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But she's also probably the most beautiful and entrancing creature... ever to walk onto a stage.
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The play is also interwoven with some entrancing original musical numbers, which, despite being unevenly distributed, aid in setting a tone of passion and magic.
Blog text (7) -
No inducement could persuade him to open up; the most entrancing visions would beseech him in vain.
Fiction book (1992) -
And for many would-be buyers, the sculptural sweep of a fossilized femur or the metallic shine of a meteorite is just as aesthetically entrancing.
Academic text (1998) -
The entrancing beauty of the sunset left us speechless as we watched it by the beach.
Synonyms
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2.0
Very interesting in a way that keeps your attention
35
5.6
Makes you unable to stop paying attention
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3.7
Very attractive in a way that feels like magic
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4.2
Holding people's attention because it is pleasant and interesting
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6.1
Keeping your attention so you cannot look away
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5.5
A person or thing that holds your full attention as if by magic
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5.1
So interesting that it holds your full attention
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5.8
Very interesting in a way that keeps your attention
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3.9
Very interesting and keeps your full attention
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6.6
Very attractive in a way that seems to cast a spell
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5.8
Makes you watch and listen because it feels like magic
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4.7
Holding your attention so you cannot stop looking or thinking
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8.3
Attracts and keeps your attention as if by a spell
Antonyms
How Entrancing
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Etymology
The word entrancing comes from the verb entrance, made of en- 'in' and trance, a word for a 'dreamy' or 'spell-like' state. So something entrancing puts you 'into a trance', which is why it means so beautiful or fascinating that it holds your full attention.