rapt

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   Snatched, taken away

   Snatched, taken away; abducted.

   • 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.
2. 2

   Lifted up into the air

   Lifted up into the air; transported into heaven.

3. 3

   Very interested, involved in something, absorbed, transfixed

   Very interested, involved in something, absorbed, transfixed; fascinated or engrossed.

   • 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:[…].
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   1. 4

      Enthusiastic

      Enthusiastic; ecstatic, elated, happy.

      • 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.
   2. 5

      To transport or ravish.

      • The Bards with furie rapt, the British youth among, Unto the charming Harpe thy future honor song
   3. 6

      To carry away by force.

      • Out-rushing from his denne rapts all away
   4. 7

      An ecstasy

      An ecstasy; a trance.

      • the soul then is in rapt
   5. 8

      Rapidity.

The neighborhood

• synonymabsorbed
• synonymbewitched
• synonymcaptivated
• synonymenchanted
• synonymengaged
• synonymengrossed
• synonymenthralled
• synonymentranced
• synonymfascinated
• synonymhypnotized
• synonyminterested
• synonymmesmerized
• antonymapathetic
• antonymuninterested
• antonymunconcerned
• neighborrapture