ENTRANCED Synonyms: 103 Similar and Opposite Words

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adjective

as in charmed

being or appearing to be under a magic spell a striking beauty who was accustomed to having entranced and tongue-tied young suitors

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as in ecstatic

experiencing or marked by overwhelming usually pleasurable emotion the entranced look on her face as she danced at the ball

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verb

past tense of entrance

as in delighted

to fill with overwhelming emotion (as wonder or delight) a production of The Nutcracker ballet that will entrance audiences

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Recent Examples of entranced

Adjective

Onscreen, his hands floated slowly across a sheet of paper, an entranced expression on his face. — Thessaly La Force, New Yorker, 29 June 2026 Bay Area News Group After growing up in Baguio City in the Philippines, where dessert often meant treats like fresh mangoes, sticky rice or coconut candy, Elisa Sunga became entranced with baked desserts like cakes when her family moved to Antioch, in the East Bay area, in 2001. — Kate Bradshaw, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 May 2026 Pictures of birthday cakes, hospital visits, church functions, and target practice sessions sit beside snaps of a levitating water can, a flying briefcase, or an entranced friend. — Shannon Taggart, Artforum, 1 Feb. 2026

Verb

Bat is entranced by the instruction manual written in many languages, while Snake finds endless imaginative uses for the box itself. — Caroline Carlson, Literary Hub, 1 Sep. 2026 The look felt right at home on this press tour, adding to her incredible roster of recent looks that have left us mere mortals entranced. — Daisy Maldonado, InStyle, 16 July 2026 Four-year-old Juni Wahab was entranced by the sight of the swallows and cormorants swooping low overhead and the rushing twists of water. — Jireh Deng, Los Angeles Times, 13 July 2026 The nation’s largest retailer has entranced World Cup tourists. — Ramishah Maruf, CNN Money, 8 July 2026 Gollehon witnessed the process, was entranced, and as a teen enrolled in saddlery classes in Spokane, before apprenticing under Bleeker himself. — Jeanne Malle, Air Mail, 4 July 2026 Kids might be more entranced by the family-friendly Resort Pool and Winding River, the activities at the Reef Rangers Club, and the 500,000-gallon Under the Sea Lagoon that’s home to stingrays, reef fish, and Aldabra tortoises. — Beth Luberecki, USA Today, 30 June 2026 The kids, entranced by their phones and tablets, don’t meet up anymore to play dress-up dolls, kick a ball around, or even just talk—not with whole virtual worlds and endless distractions at their eager little fingertips. — Justin Chang, New Yorker, 19 June 2026 For those discerning shoppers entranced not by fresh-off-the-runway finds (too common, too mass-produced), but, instead, garments with history and legacy embedded in their seams, these are holy grails. — Max Berlinger, Vogue, 11 June 2026

Recent Examples of Synonyms for entranced

Adjective

For years, Coventry had lived a charmed life in the top flight, pulling off a few dramatic escapes either side of a glorious FA Cup success in 1987.

— Oliver Kay, New York Times, 20 Aug. 2026
The actor discussed their charmed meet-cute on The Ellen DeGeneres Show in 2011.

— Brianna Zigler, Entertainment Weekly, 9 July 2026

Definition of charmed

Verb

She was delighted by the story and assured me that had Bernard seen Eddie decapitate his work for a laugh, he would have been doubled over alongside my father.

— Jesse McLaren, Vulture, 11 Sep. 2026
That opening-day land in Disney’s Animal Kingdom delighted families for 28 years, but officially closed in February 2026 to make way for an entirely new Tropical Americas land.

— Julie Tremaine, PEOPLE, 3 Sep. 2026

Definition of delighted

Adjective

The fantasy comedy, which starred Eden alongside Larry Hagman, followed the whimsical adventures of astronaut Anthony Nelson, who discovers an enchanted lamp with a wish-granting genie.

— Edward Segarra, USA Today, 6 Sep. 2026
Barratt plays Tom Riddle, a former Hogwarts student who meets Harry in the form of a mysterious voice magically scribbling messages through an enchanted notebook.

— Nick Romano, Entertainment Weekly, 4 Sep. 2026

Definition of enchanted

Adjective

Audiences, however, have remained enraptured by its enduring story, in which one man’s public (and private) persona crumbles as one woman’s own star rises.

— Nathan Smith, Air Mail, 18 July 2026
But ate every single chicken wing, every single Waffle House, every single nugget from Buc-ee's, and were utterly enraptured.

— Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 17 July 2026

Definition of enraptured

Verb

As Oppenheim put it at the film’s Venice press conference, he’d long been fascinated by Hansen, and only became more so after his wife gifted him a Cameo from the host for his birthday.

— Nate Jones, Vulture, 5 Sep. 2026
Here are four more scammers who fascinated people on the internet – plus one who people thought was a scammer but turned out not to be.

— Owen Carry, USA Today, 3 Sep. 2026

Definition of fascinated

Adjective

Now up five games in the NL East, and having trimmed the magic number to clinch the division to 15, the Braves (85-58) were four outs away from a second straight loss to their division rival.

— Chad Bishop, AJC.com, 6 Sep. 2026
Researchers have completely switched off superconductivity in magic-angle graphene by weakening interactions between electrons, providing strong evidence that those interactions are central to the unusual phenomenon.

— Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 5 Sep. 2026

Definition of magic

Adjective

With the film set to go into production in fall 2027 in Alberta, Canada, and Switzerland, Meier is giddy about the prospect of painting on a broader canvas than ever before.

— Christopher Vourlias, Variety, 3 Sep. 2026
The attendees were hip, all ages, and slightly giddy, ready to have whales blow their minds.

— Sarah Larson, New Yorker, 31 Aug. 2026

Definition of giddy

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