Meaning

4 senses
  1. (not comparable)Lifted up into the air; transported into heaven.

  2. (comparable)Very interested, involved in something, absorbed, transfixed; fascinated or engrossed.

    The children watched in rapt attention as the magician produced object after object from his hat.

    1851-2, George W. M. Reynolds, The Necromancer, in Reynolds′s Miscellany, republished 1857; 2008, page 247, It was an enthusiasm of the most rapt and holy kind.

    hingerissen, gebannt, fasziniert

    поглощённыйpogloščónnyj, восхищённыйvosxiščónnyj

  3. (comparable)Enthusiastic; ecstatic, elated, happy.

    He was rapt with his exam results.

    begeistert, hingerissen, überschwänglich

  4. (archaic, not comparable)Snatched, taken away; abducted.

More definitions
  • feeling great rapture or delight
  • giving or marked by complete attention to

Examples

3 sentences
  1. Tom listened with rapt attention.

  2. She was rapt in prayer.

  3. I can see them over there paying rapt attention to every word that comes out of my mouth.

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Translations

5 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
very interested; fascinated:
Deutsch
By meaning 2
very interested; fascinated:
enthusisatic; ecstatic, elated, happy:

Origin

Borrowed from Latin raptus, past participle of rapio (“to seize”).

Borrowed from Latin raptus, past participle of rapio (“to seize”).

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Forms

more rapt/rapter, most rapt/raptest
Comparativemore rapt / rapter Lesson
Superlativemost rapt / raptest Lesson

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Synonyms

23 synonyms

Antonyms

3 antonyms

Word family

5 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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