Trancelike

adj

adj ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Having the characteristics of a trance.

    "He’d been so terrified by the look on his father’s face that he gasped, breaking the trancelike moment."

Adjective
  1. 1
    as if in a trance wordnet

Example

More examples

"He’d been so terrified by the look on his father’s face that he gasped, breaking the trancelike moment."

Etymology

From trance + -like.

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