rapt

 
Pronunciation: /rapt/

adjective

  • 1completely fascinated or absorbed by what one is seeing or hearing: a rapt teenage audience
  • characterized by a state of fascination: they listened with rapt attention
  • filled with an intense and pleasurable emotion; enraptured: she shut her eyes and seemed rapt with desire
  • Australian/NZ informalanother term for wrapped the newly chosen minister declared he was rapt with his new portfolio
  • 2 archaic having been carried away bodily or transported to heaven: he was rapt on high

Derivatives

raptly

adverb

raptness

noun

Origin:

late Middle English (in the sense 'transported by religious feeling'): from Latin raptus 'seized', past participle of rapere