fascinate
verb
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
- Line style
- core relation
- instance, member or derived
- substance, domain or see-also
- Direction
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Senses
Sense 1 verb
cause to be interested or curious
Types & categories
Related & opposite
- fascination derivation
- fascination derivation
Sense 2 verb
to render motionless, as with a fixed stare or by arousing terror or awe
The snake charmer fascinates the cobra
Types & categories
- interest hypernym
Related & opposite
- fascination derivation
- grasp derivation
- spellbinder derivation
- fascination derivation
Sense 3 verb
attract; cause to be enamored
She captured all the men's hearts
Types & categories
Related & opposite
- beguilement derivation
- charm derivation
- ravishment derivation
- enchantment derivation
- captive derivation
- catch derivation
- charmer derivation
- smoothie derivation
- trance derivation
- fascination derivation
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | fascination |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | fascination |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | matter to |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | grab |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | fascination |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | grasp |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | spellbinder |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | fascination |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | interest |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | beguilement |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | charm |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | ravishment |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | enchantment |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | captive |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | catch |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | charmer |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | smoothie |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | trance |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | fascination |
| 3 | hypernym | Types & categories | attract |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | hold |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | work |