stagestruck

1 7.4

Being very excited about acting or the theater

adjective
/ˈsteɪdʒstrʌk/

Archaic

: apasionado del teatro

As a child, she was stagestruck and spent hours pretending to be the characters from her favorite plays.

Examples

His stagestruck enthusiasm led him to audition for every school play and community theater production.
His stagestruck behavior at the party made everyone laugh and pay attention to him.
Ever since she saw her first play, she has been completely stagestruck and dreams of performing on Broadway.
As a stagestruck teenager, he spent hours practicing monologues in front of the mirror.
The stagestruck child couldn't take her eyes off the performance.
After watching the play, he felt completely stagestruck.
Many stagestruck fans flock to Broadway every year to see the latest performances.

Synonyms

stage-struck

vsstagestruck

1 7.1

Being very excited about the theater and wanting to act in plays

is very enthusiastic or fascinated by acting without necessarily being obsessed

Antonyms

indifferent

50 4.4

Not interested or showing no strong feeling about something

uninterested

18 3.5

Not wanting to know about or take part in something

How Enthusiastic

obsessed

459 4.8

stagestruck

Archaic

1 7.4

enthusiastic

167 2.7

fascinated

170 2.1

interested

∞ 1.0

Surface Forms

stagestruck positive

Morphology

stagestruck = stage + strike (semi-transparent) = stage + struck

Built from 'stage' + past-participle 'struck' meaning 'affected by'; the figurative use of 'struck' is not fully productive for all learners, so the relation is somewhat idiomatic.

Etymology

Stagestruck is made from stage and struck, like star-struck, and it imagines being 'struck' by the stage. So stagestruck describes someone who is very excited or fascinated by acting and the theater.