fascinating
Americanadjective
adjective
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arousing great interest
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enchanting or alluring
a fascinating woman
Other Word Forms
- fascinatingly adverb
- half-fascinating adjective
- half-fascinatingly adverb
- quasi-fascinating adjective
- quasi-fascinatingly adverb
- unfascinating adjective
Etymology
Origin of fascinating
First recorded in 1640–50; fascinat(e) + -ing 2
Example Sentences
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"It's fascinating that something hundreds of years old could so closely match what is around today and contrast so much with what people romanticize the past landscape to be."
From Science Daily
“Forgive me. I forget, sometimes, that urchin talk isn’t universally fascinating.”
From Literature
“Still, some of what Kent says is fascinating. He wasn’t working alone, for instance. We’ve asked him for a list of accomplices. Guess whose name came up?”
From Literature
"In some sense it was scary. But also it was fascinating -- like, what the robot was capable of."
From Barron's
“The Stars We Do Not See: Australian Indigenous Art,” an immense exhibition of nearly 200 works by more than 130 artists, is fascinating, frustrating, engaging and baffling.
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