stage-struck

1 7.1

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

adjective
/ˈsteɪdʒ strʌk/

: fascinado por el teatro

After watching the incredible play, he felt completely stage-struck and wanted to audition for the next production.

Examples

And this getting into a jealous froth because I spent ten minutes with a stage-struck kid.

All About Eve (1950)
You remember when we were in college how stage struck I was?

Carefree (1938)
Everything seems a fine acting role when you're stage-struck...

Stage Fright (1950)
You must be stage-struck.

The Wizard of Gore (1970)
Anyway, I am stage-struck.

Act One (1963)
I get stage-struck.

Fiction book (1992)
Stage-struck from childhood onward, DeMille became an actor in 1900, later branching out into directing and producing.

Academic text (2010)
She always dreamed of performing on stage, so it's no surprise that she became stage-struck at the theater.
Being stage-struck, she auditioned for every play in her school, eager to show off her talent.

Synonyms

stagestruck

vsstage-struck

Archaic

1 7.4

Being very excited about acting or the theater

is the same in meaning but written with a hyphen

Antonyms

indifferent

50 4.4

Not interested or showing no strong feeling about something

How Fascinated

obsessed

459 4.8

stage-struck

1 7.1

fascinated

170 2.1

interested

∞ 1.0

Surface Forms

stage-struck positive

Morphology

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

Formed from 'stage' + the past-participle/adjectival 'struck' meaning 'affected by the stage'; the basic idea is inferable but the idiomatic sense 'obsessed with theatre' is not fully predictable for all learners.

Etymology

Stage-struck comes from the simple words stage and struck, as if someone is 'struck' by the stage like being hit by a strong feeling. So a stage-struck person is very excited or even obsessed with acting and the theatre.