entranced

[ en-transt ]

adjective

1. filled with delight or wonder; enraptured; captivated:

   The two last songs soulfully bring the album to a lilting climax, leaving the entranced listener clamoring for more.

2. put into a trance; hypnotized:

   She honestly believes she spoke to her dead mother with the help of an entranced medium.

verb

1. the simple past tense and past participle of entrance ².

Other Words From

• un·en·tranced adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of entranced¹

First recorded in 1590–1600; entrance ² + -ed ² for the adjective senses; entrance ² + -ed ¹ for the verb sense

Example Sentences

My apartment was a granny flat over a garage, its separate entrance something I valued a lot, as I didn’t have to bother my landlord going in and out, and he usually never saw me and thus never got a chance to scam on me.

From Nautilus

The northern entrance of Front Royal is a gateway town with all the quaint historic charm you’d expect from a small village settled in colonial times, as well as one of the best cheeseburgers in the state at Spelunker’s.

From Outside Online

He added how the first students in the program spent time building algae farms in their backyards, working with SpaceX engineers and taking college-level math classes upon entrance.

From TechCrunch

I think the hospital setting is an easier entrance for people who are concerned about not having the strength, or the conviction, to feel they can weather this experience.

From Nautilus

She later gained entrance to Harvard Law School but transferred to Columbia Law School, where she finished in a tie at the top of her class.

From Ozy

The leading military minds of Europe, Tuchman believes, were entranced by the cult of the offensive.

From The Daily Beast

Now another monologue, also spoken by a woman who has experienced more than most can fathom, has left me entranced and devastated.

From The Daily Beast

She is still entranced by his everyday kindness and belief that people “mean well”; his ability to fix things.

From The Daily Beast

Instead, the writers appear too entranced by the sheer magnitude of their data-set (and seemingly want it even larger).

From The Daily Beast

Pluto is god of the underworld whose wife Persephone sits frozen, entranced or asleep on her throne.

From The Daily Beast

Will Wallace had left him by that time, and was listening entranced to the fervid exhortations of Dickson of Rutherglen.

From Project Gutenberg

I stood entranced by the exquisite beauty and majesty of the naked creature until Prince Genner nudged me with an elbow.

From Project Gutenberg

From the opening bar to the close of the Oratorio the club members listened entranced.

From Project Gutenberg

So entranced was Cattledon that she never moved hand or foot, simply stood still and gazed.

From Project Gutenberg

It came to them really as a sort of divine explanation of a paganism which entranced but bewildered them.

From Project Gutenberg

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