He fell captive to her charms.
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Captive
//ˈkæptɪv//
Synonyms for "captive" (93 found)
Ranked by relevance and common usage.
Closest matches (19)
Strong matches (28)
Related words (46)
Related word relations
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More general
9 entriesSynonyms
3 entriesderived
14 entriesis a
2 entriesrelated to
8 entriessimilar
2 entriesTranslations
201 translations across 78 languages.
Abaza
1 entries- гъар noun (a person who has been captured)
Adyghe
1 entries- гъэр noun (a person who has been captured)
Albanian
1 entries- rob noun (a person who has been captured)
Ancient Greek
1 entries- αἰχμάλωτος noun (a person who has been captured)
Arabic
4 entries- أَسِير adj (held prisoner)
- مَحْبُوس adj (held prisoner)
- أَسِير noun (a person who has been captured)
- أَسِيرَة noun (a person who has been captured)
Armenian
1 entries- գերի noun (a person who has been captured)
Azerbaijani
1 entries- əsir noun (a person who has been captured)
Belarusian
4 entries- пало́нны adj (held prisoner)
- вя́зень noun (a person who has been captured)
- пало́нная noun (a person who has been captured)
- пало́нны noun (a person who has been captured)
Bengali
1 entries- বন্দী noun (a person who has been captured)
Bulgarian
4 entries- пленен adj (held prisoner)
- затво́рник noun (a person who has been captured)
- затво́рник noun (a person held prisoner)
- затво́рница noun (a person who has been captured)
Catalan
2 entries- captiu adj (held prisoner)
- captiu noun (a person who has been captured)
Central Kurdish
1 entries- دیل noun (a person who has been captured)
Cherokee
1 entries- ᎠᏴᎩ noun (a person held prisoner)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 俘虜 /俘虏 noun (a person who has been captured)
Czech
4 entries- zajatý adj (held prisoner)
- zajatec noun (a person who has been captured)
- zajatec noun (a person held prisoner)
- zajatkyně noun (a person who has been captured)
Danish
1 entries- fange noun (a person who has been captured)
Dutch
3 entries- gevangen adj (held prisoner)
- gevangene noun (a person who has been captured)
- gevangene noun (a person held prisoner)
Esperanto
2 entries- kaptito noun (a person held prisoner)
- malliberulo noun (a person held prisoner)
Estonian
1 entries- vang noun (a person who has been captured)
Finnish
3 entries- vangittu adj (held prisoner)
- vanki noun (a person who has been captured)
- vanki noun (a person held prisoner)
French
3 entries- captif adj (held prisoner)
- captif noun (a person who has been captured)
- captive noun (a person who has been captured)
Galician
1 entries- cativo noun (a person who has been captured)
Georgian
1 entries- ტყვე noun (a person who has been captured)
German
4 entries- gefangen adj (held prisoner)
- Gefangene noun (a person who has been captured)
- Gefangener noun (a person who has been captured)
- Gefangener noun (a person held prisoner)
Greek
1 entries- δεσμώτης noun (a person who has been captured)
Hebrew
2 entries- שְׁבוּיָה noun (a person who has been captured)
- שָׁבוּי noun (a person who has been captured)
Hindi
2 entries- असीर noun (a person who has been captured)
- बंदी noun (a person who has been captured)
Hungarian
4 entries- foglyul ejtett adj (held prisoner)
- fogságba esett adj (held prisoner)
- fogva tartott adj (held prisoner)
- rabul ejtett adj (held prisoner)
Irish
4 entries- braighdeanach noun (a person who has been captured)
- broid noun (a person who has been captured)
- cime noun (a person who has been captured)
- cime noun (a person held prisoner)
Italian
4 entries- catturato adj (held prisoner)
- intrappolato adj (held prisoner)
- prigioniero noun (a person who has been captured)
- prigioniero noun (a person held prisoner)
Japanese
2 entries- とりこ noun (a person who has been captured)
- 俘虜 noun (a person who has been captured)
Kabardian
1 entries- гъэр noun (a person who has been captured)
Kazakh
1 entries- тұтқын noun (a person who has been captured)
Khmer
1 entries- ឈ្លើយ noun (a person who has been captured)
Korean
1 entries- 포로 noun (a person who has been captured)
Kyrgyz
1 entries- туткун noun (a person who has been captured)
Lao
2 entries- ຊະເລີຍ noun (a person who has been captured)
- ເຊີຍ noun (a person who has been captured)
Latin
3 entries- captīvus adj (held prisoner)
- captus noun (a person who has been captured)
- captīvus noun (a person who has been captured)
Latvian
2 entries- gūsteknis noun (a person who has been captured)
- sagūstītais noun (a person who has been captured)
Lithuanian
1 entries- belaisvis noun (a person who has been captured)
Macedonian
4 entries- заробен adj (held prisoner)
- заробеник noun (a person who has been captured)
- заробеница noun (a person who has been captured)
- заробеничка noun (a person who has been captured)
Malay
2 entries- tawanan adj (held prisoner)
- orang tawanan noun (a person who has been captured)
Maltese
2 entries- isir noun (a person who has been captured)
- maqbud noun (a person who has been captured)
Manchu
1 entries- ᠣᠯᠵᡳ noun (a person who has been captured)
Mongolian
1 entries- хоригдол noun (a person who has been captured)
Māori
2 entries- aromea adj (held prisoner)
- whakarau noun (a person who has been captured)
Nahuatl
2 entries- malli noun (a person who has been captured)
- malli noun (a person held prisoner)
Navajo
2 entries- yisnááh noun (a person who has been captured)
- yisnááh noun (a person held prisoner)
Northern Kurdish
3 entries- dîl noun (a person who has been captured)
- girtî noun (a person who has been captured)
- êsîr noun (a person who has been captured)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- fange noun (a person who has been captured)
Old English
1 entries- hæft noun (a person who has been captured)
Ottoman Turkish
4 entries- دربند adj (held prisoner)
- اسیر noun (a person who has been captured)
- اسیر noun (a person held prisoner)
- طالاق noun (a person who has been captured)
Pashto
2 entries- اسير noun (a person who has been captured)
- بندي noun (a person who has been captured)
Persian
3 entries- اسیر noun (a person who has been captured)
- اسیر noun (a person held prisoner)
- بندی noun (a person who has been captured)
Plautdietsch
2 entries- Jefangna noun (a person who has been captured)
- Jefangna noun (a person held prisoner)
Polish
4 entries- jeniec noun (a person who has been captured)
- jeniec noun (a person held prisoner)
- więzień noun (a person who has been captured)
- więzień noun (a person held prisoner)
Portuguese
3 entries- cativo adj (held prisoner)
- cativo noun (a person who has been captured)
- prisioneiro noun (a person held prisoner)
Romanian
3 entries- captiv adj (held prisoner)
- captiv noun (a person who has been captured)
- prizonier noun (a person who has been captured)
Russian
4 entries- пле́нный adj (held prisoner)
- пле́нная noun (a person who has been captured)
- пле́нник noun (a person who has been captured)
- пле́нник noun (a person held prisoner)
Serbo-Croatian
4 entries- sȗžanj noun (a person who has been captured)
- zarobljènica noun (a person who has been captured)
- zarobljènica noun (a person held prisoner)
- zarobljènīk noun (a person who has been captured)
Slovak
4 entries- zajatý adj (held prisoner)
- zajatec noun (a person who has been captured)
- zajatec noun (a person held prisoner)
- zajatkyňa noun (a person who has been captured)
Slovene
2 entries- ujetnica noun (a person who has been captured)
- ujetnik noun (a person who has been captured)
Spanish
4 entries- captivo adj (held prisoner)
- cautivo adj (held prisoner)
- captivo noun (a person who has been captured)
- cautivo noun (a person who has been captured)
Swahili
1 entries- ghanima noun (a person held prisoner)
Swedish
1 entries- fånge noun (a person who has been captured)
Tagalog
1 entries- bihag noun (a person who has been captured)
Tajik
2 entries- асир noun (a person who has been captured)
- бандизан noun (a person who has been captured)
Tatar
1 entries- әсир noun (a person who has been captured)
Thai
2 entries- เชลย noun (a person who has been captured)
- เชลย noun (a person held prisoner)
Turkish
4 entries- esir noun (a person who has been captured)
- esir noun (a person held prisoner)
- hükümlü noun (a person held prisoner)
- mahkum noun (a person held prisoner)
Turkmen
1 entries- ýesir noun (a person who has been captured)
Ugaritic
1 entries- 𐎀𐎒𐎗 noun (a person who has been captured)
Ukrainian
4 entries- поло́нений adj (held prisoner)
- бра́нець noun (a person who has been captured)
- бра́нка noun (a person who has been captured)
- в'я́зень noun (a person who has been captured)
Urdu
2 entries- اسیر noun (a person who has been captured)
- بندی noun (a person who has been captured)
Uyghur
1 entries- ئەسىر noun (a person who has been captured)
Uzbek
3 entries- asir noun (a person who has been captured)
- bandi noun (a person who has been captured)
- tutkun noun (a person who has been captured)
Vietnamese
1 entries- người tù binh noun (a person who has been captured)
Yiddish
1 entries- געפֿאַנגענער noun (a person who has been captured)
Sample sentences
15 total sentences available.
Greece, conquered, took captive her savage conqueror.
Source: tatoeba (711443)
Tom is still being held captive.
Source: tatoeba (1024867)
The captive escaped in the dark of the night.
Source: tatoeba (2632079)
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