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# fascinated

adjective (fascinated); verb (fascinate, fascinates, fascinated, fascinating)

«fascinated» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. Extremely interested in something, so that you want to keep watching or learning about it. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fascinated/#m1)
2. Held still by something you cannot stop looking at, as if under a spell. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fascinated/#m2)

### In the lessons

A key school word: pupils are fascinated by dinosaurs, space or volcanoes. In stories, a character fascinated by something often follows it into adventure, like Toad fascinated by motor cars. Phrases: «fascinated by», «fascinated with».

### Examples

- I am fascinated by volcanoes. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fascinated/#x1)
- The children watched the caterpillar, fascinated. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fascinated/#x2)
- Toad was fascinated by the motor car. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fascinated/#x3)
- She was fascinated with the stars and wanted to be an astronaut. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fascinated/#x4)
- The cat sat fascinated by the goldfish. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fascinated/#x5)
- We were fascinated to learn how bees make honey. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fascinated/#x6)
- He did it with such an air, he was so frightfully distingué, that she was too fascinated to cry out. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fascinated/#x7)

### Note

Trap: «fascinated» describes the person who feels the interest; «fascinating» describes the thing that causes it. «I am fascinated» (not «I am fascinating», which means you are the interesting thing). Spelling: sc in the middle.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «fascinated» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fascinated/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«fascinated» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/fascinated.html) on Mova free.