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

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 When the British artist Lynette Yiadom-Boakye’s work was exhibited at the New Museum in 2017, viewers were entranced by the way her paintings reflected the deep solitude of each of her subjects. — Lovia Gyarkye, The New York Review of Books, 6 June 2026

Recent Examples of Synonyms for entranced

Adjective

The actor discussed their charmed meet-cute on The Ellen DeGeneres Show in 2011.

— Brianna Zigler, Entertainment Weekly, 9 July 2026
Across this charmed Knicks run, not many public flowers have been tossed Thibodeau’s way from his former team.

— Ian O'Connor, New York Times, 17 June 2026

Definition of charmed

Adjective

Although sometimes in those ecstatic moments in your life, the hardest thing is to really take it all in.

— Sophie Monks Kaufman, IndieWire, 12 Aug. 2026
His prose radiates an ecstatic pessimism, as if lit up from within by the relief of not having to sugarcoat things with comforting lies.

— Peter C. Baker, New Yorker, 5 Aug. 2026

Definition of ecstatic

Adjective

Kindergarten is often an enchanted place, one which many children vividly remember all their lives.

— Liz Rosenberg, The Conversation, 14 Aug. 2026
Maybe there’s still hope for a new morning, for clouds that cluster like ripe grapes which, when squeezed, will release from the heavens the sweet streams of enchanted days.

— Ingeborg Bachmann, New Yorker, 13 Aug. 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

The 31-year-old rapper, a member of the megagroup NCT and the leader of its subgroup NCT 127, has seemingly always been fascinated by merging different genres to create a new song.

— Nicole Fell, HollywoodReporter, 13 Aug. 2026
Questions around beauty and longing recur, as do keywords (such as ‘password’), names, references and scenic features, but what fascinated me most is that in principle each episode could be read as a little patchy universe on its own.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 11 Aug. 2026

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