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The word "captive" can be used as noun, adjective, adjective and verb.

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Derived Terms

captivance captive audience captive audience meeting captive bead ring captive bolt pistol captive candidate captive insurer captive nation captive portal captively encaptive recaptive semicaptive take captive

Broader Terms (Hypernyms)

animal animate being beast brute creature emotional person fauna unfortunate unfortunate person

Type Of (IsA)

animal emotional person

Related Terms

capture captured confined free held prisoner prisoner held zoo

Similar Terms

attentive unfree

Synonym Network

engrossed imprisoned prisoner

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