mesmeric
1
8.3
- adjective
- /ˈmɛzmərɪk/
:
hipnótico
- She delivered a mesmeric performance that captivated everyone in the theater.
Examples
-
Even the daguerreotypist—nothing but an early photographer to us—must have given the 19th-century reader a frisson because of his combination of mesmeric powers and miraculous ability to produce telling images out of pure light.
Blog text (9) -
Rapt, almost mesmeric in their concentration.
Fiction book (1990) -
"He walked toward her slowly, casually, his languid grace mesmeric in the moonlight.
Fiction book (1991) -
He's wearing a dark grey suit and a look of almost mesmeric shock, his mouth open, his hands shaking, his unblinking eyes staring past us at the As the Wrangler rolls by.
-
They form some of the most mesmeric aerial displays to confuse and avoid a peregrine falcon on the lookout for his evening meal.
Blog text (30) -
Unlike Cinderella's tale, which lifted the scullery maid up to wealth and nobility, Simpson's love story pulled a prince down from it on the mesmeric power of true love.
Blog text (19) -
The magician's tricks were so mesmeric that the audience couldn't look away.
-
His mesmeric presence drew people to him at every event he attended.
Synonyms
16
4.4
Having a strong, attractive personality that makes people like them
14
6.1
Keeping your attention so you cannot look away
14
4.2
Holding people's attention because it is pleasant and interesting
12
5.5
A person or thing that holds your full attention as if by magic
7
5.8
Very interesting in a way that keeps your attention
4
5.8
Makes you watch and listen because it feels like magic
1
5.8
So beautiful or interesting that it holds your full attention
1
7.4
You are very still and not aware of things around you
Antonyms
How Fascinating
Surface Forms
Morphology
mesmeric = mesmerize (transparent) = mesmer + ic
Formed by adding the adjective-forming suffix '-ic' to the verb 'mesmerize', giving the sense 'having qualities of mesmerizing'; the relation is clear to learners who know 'mesmerize'.
Etymology
Mesmeric comes from the name Mesmer, a doctor who used the idea of 'magnetism' to put people in a 'trance'. Because his method seemed to hold people like a 'spell', mesmeric means 'fascinating' or 'hypnotic', and you can see the same idea in the word mesmerize.