rapt
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin raptus, past participle of rapio (“to seize”).
Inflected forms:
form: more rapt
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most rapt
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Snatched, taken away; abducted.
pos: adj
tags: archaic
not-comparable
examples: And through the Greeks and Ilians they rapt / The whirring chariot.
From Oxford I was rapt by my nephew, Sir Edmund Francis Bacon, to Redgrove.
gloss: Lifted up into the air; transported into heaven.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Very interested, involved in something, absorbed, transfixed; fascinated or engrossed.
pos: adj
tags: comparable
examples: The children watched in rapt attention as the magician produced object after object from his hat.
1851-2, George W. M. Reynolds, The Necromancer, in Reynolds′s Miscellany, republished 1857; 2008, page 247,
It was an enthusiasm of the most rapt and holy kind.
Her expression grew more rapt; she paused as if she had lost the thread of the words and then spoke again, gazing far out over the hall as jugglers do in performing feats of balancing:[…].
The Rat never answered, if indeed he heard. Rapt, transported, trembling, he was possessed in all his senses by this new divine thing that caught up his helpless soul and swung and dandled it, a powerless but happy infant in a strong sustaining grasp.
The first piece of the night is Shostakovich. Its first movement is a sedate, haunting, almost melodramatic nocturne, but before too long the concerto changes gear and becomes energetic, discordant, feral. It's lengthy, too, a real work-out, and much of it is brutally difficult to execute. He's on form tonight. Close to flawless, and his audience — which he cannot see or hear — seems rapt.
“Citizens of Krapopolis! It is I, your King Tyrannis!” “There's something about you today! We're rapt!” [Cheering]
gloss: Enthusiastic; ecstatic, elated, happy.
pos: adj
tags: comparable
examples: He was rapt with his exam results.
I […]am rapt to see my Marcia's tears.
Creatures who navigate long-distance migrations — including the green turtles, wind birds, or great cranes — draw his most rapt commentaries.
2010, Michael Reichert, Richard Hawley, Reaching Boys, Teaching Boys: Strategies that Work—and Why, John Wiley & Sons, US, page 121,
Even in the most rapt accounts of independent student work, there appears an appreciative acknowledgment of the teacher′s having determined just the right amount of room necessary to build autonomy without risking frustration and failure.
One bloke I met in the pub was the owner of the local meatworks. He was rapt to have the Sudanese, and if 1600 more were coming – that was the rumour – well, he′d have been even more rapt.
2012, Greig Caigou, Wild Horizons: More Great Hunting Adventures, HarperCollins (New Zealand), unnumbered page,
These are worthy aspects of the hunt to give some consideration to with the next generation, because market forces want us to get more rapt with ever more sophisticated gear and an algorithmic conquering of animal instinct.
Synonyms: absorbed
bewitched
captivated
enchanted
engaged
engrossed
enthralled
entranced
fascinated
hypnotized
interested
mesmerized
rapt
spellbound
transfixed
Antonyms: apathetic
uninterested
unconcerned
Related words: rapture
Derived words: enrapt
raptly
raptness
unrapt
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