Enthralling

adj, verb

adj, verb ·Uncommon ·College level

Definitions

Verb
  1. 1
    present participle and gerund of enthrall form-of, gerund, participle, present
Adjective
  1. 1
    exciting and absorbing

    "The Abbess had not miscalculated the effect of the yesterday's ceremony—she knew it was not binding, but its influence as a religious obligation was enthralling to a degree."

Adjective
  1. 1
    capturing interest as if by a spell wordnet

Synonyms

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captivatingabsorbingalluringappealingappetizingarresting

Antonyms

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dreich

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"The problem of interstellar travel was so enthralling that it sometimes became an obsession even to a fairly well-developed Utopian world. This could only occur if in the constitution of that world there was something unwholesome, some secret and unfulfilled hunger impelling the beings. The race might then become travel-mad."

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