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FASCINATING
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Capturing interest as if by a spell
Example:
a fascinating woman
Synonyms:
bewitching; captivating; enchanting; enthralling; entrancing; fascinating
Classified under:
Similar:
attractive (pleasing to the eye or mind especially through beauty or charm)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Capable of arousing and holding the attention
Example:
a fascinating story
Synonyms:
absorbing; engrossing; fascinating; gripping; riveting
Classified under:
Similar:
interesting (arousing or holding the attention)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
-ing form of the verb fascinate
Context examples:
She had the most delightful little voice, the gayest little laugh, the pleasantest and most fascinating little ways, that ever led a lost youth into hopeless slavery.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
I could make no sense of the subject; my own thoughts swam always between me and the page I had usually found fascinating.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
We have in our police reports realism pushed to its extreme limits, and yet the result is, it must be confessed, neither fascinating nor artistic.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The newly-created and most accurate 3D map of galaxy reveals that it’s warped and twisted, and even more fascinating.
(Scientists Say Milky Way Is Warped & Twisted Not Flat, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
Understanding the foundations of human thought is fascinating for scientists and laypersons alike.
(Smart People Have Better Connected Brains, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
That’s something we’ve suspected due to the archaeological findings, but it’s fascinating to have it confirmed by the genetics.
(Ancient DNA analysis unlocks secrets of Ice Age tribes in the Americas, University of Cambridge)
You want nothing but patience—or give it a more fascinating name, call it hope.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
An exquisite, fascinating fossil find in northern China has provided new evidence that some Jurassic dinosaurs developed membranous wings like those seen in modern day bats.
(Second Bat-Like Dinosaur Discovered in China, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
It is a low-mass, young, isolated brown dwarf — one of the closest to our Sun — all of which make it fascinating for study, as it has many features of a planet without being too close to the blinding light of a star.
(NASA’s Webb Telescope to Investigate Mysterious Brown Dwarfs, NASA)
A Polish count, aged eighteen, devoted himself to the ladies, who pronounced him, 'a fascinating dear', and a German Serene Something, having come to supper alone, roamed vaguely about, seeking what he might devour.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
