Word Meanings - CAPTIVATE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. To take prisoner; to capture; to subdue. Their woes whom fortune captivates. Shak. 2. To acquire ascendancy over by reason of some art or attraction; to fascinate; to charm; as, Cleopatra captivated Antony; the orator captivated all hearts.

Additional info about word: CAPTIVATE

1. To take prisoner; to capture; to subdue. Their woes whom fortune captivates. Shak. 2. To acquire ascendancy over by reason of some art or attraction; to fascinate; to charm; as, Cleopatra captivated Antony; the orator captivated all hearts. Small landscapes of captivating loveliness. W. Irving. Syn. -- To enslave; subdue; overpower; charm; enchant; bewitch; facinate; capture; lead captive.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of CAPTIVATE)

• Bewitch
• Enchant
• fascinate
• charm
• captivate
• entrance
• Enamor
• Captivate
• enslave
• endear
• bewitch
• enchain
• Enrapture
• Beatify
• enchant
• transport
• attract
• ravish
• Enslave
• subjugate
• enthrall
• Smite
• Strike
• beat
• buffet
• chastise
• blast
• afflict
• kill
• slay
• punish
• surprise

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of CAPTIVATE)

• Restore
• expand
• swell

Related words: (words related to CAPTIVATE)

• RAVISHER
  One who ravishes .
• PUNISHER
  One who inflicts punishment.
• BLASTMENT
  A sudden stroke or injury produced by some destructive cause. Shak.
• AFFLICTIVELY
  In an afflictive manner.
• CAPTIVATE
  1. To take prisoner; to capture; to subdue. Their woes whom fortune captivates. Shak. 2. To acquire ascendancy over by reason of some art or attraction; to fascinate; to charm; as, Cleopatra captivated Antony; the orator captivated all hearts.
• TRANSPORTING
  That transports; fig., ravishing. Your transporting chords ring out. Keble.
• ATTRACTABILITY
  The quality or fact of being attractable. Sir W. Jones.
• TRANSPORTAL
  Transportation; the act of removing from one locality to another. "The transportal of seeds in the wool or fur of quadrupeds." Darwin.
• CHASTISER
  One who chastises; a punisher; a corrector. Jer. Taylor. The chastiser of the rich. Burke.
• TRANSPORTABILITY
  The quality or state of being transportable.
• AFFLICTIVE
  Giving pain; causing continued or repeated pain or grief; distressing. "Jove's afflictive hand." Pope. Spreads slow disease, and darts afflictive pain. Prior.
• ATTRACTILE
  Having power to attract.
• AFFLICTING
  Grievously painful; distressing; afflictive; as, an afflicting event. -- Af*flict"ing*ly, adv.
• ENSLAVEMENT
  The act of reducing to slavery; state of being enslaved; bondage; servitude. A fresh enslavement to their enemies. South.
• ENDEAR
  1. To make dear or beloved. "To be endeared to a king." Shak. 2. To raise the price or cost of; to make costly or expensive. King James I. .
• RAVISHING
  Rapturous; transporting.
• BEWITCHING
  Having power to bewitch or fascinate; enchanting; captivating; charming. -- Be*witch"ing*ly, adv. -- Be*witch"ing*ness, n.
• BUFFETER
  One who buffets; a boxer. Jonson.
• BLASTOSPHERE
  The hollow globe or sphere formed by the arrangement of the blastomeres on the periphery of an impregnated ovum. Note:
• TRANSPORTED
  Conveyed from one place to another; figuratively, carried away with passion or pleasure; entranced. -- Trans*port"ed*ly, adv. -- Trans*port"ed*ness, n.
• MISTRANSPORT
  To carry away or mislead wrongfully, as by passion. Bp. Hall.
• DIPLOBLASTIC
  Characterizing the ovum when it has two primary germinal layers.
• NEMATOBLAST
  A spermatocyte or spermoblast.
• UPSWELL
  To swell or rise up.
• ABLASTEMIC
  Non-germinal.
• BECHARM
  To charm; to captivate.
• CNIDOBLAST
  One of the cells which, in the Coelenterata, develop into cnidæ.