Antonyms for fascinates

Grammar : Verb

Spell : fas-uh-neyt

Phonetic Transcription : ˈfæs əˌneɪt

Definition of fascinates

Origin : 1590s, "bewitch, enchant," from Middle French fasciner (14c.), from Latin fascinatus, past participle of fascinare "bewitch, enchant, fascinate," from fascinus "spell, witchcraft," of uncertain origin. Possibly from Greek baskanos "bewitcher, sorcerer," with form influenced by Latin fari "speak" (see fame (n.)).
The Greek word might be from a Thracian equivalent of Greek phaskein "to say;" cf. also enchant, and German besprechen "to charm," from sprechen "to speak." Earliest used of witches and of serpents, who were said to be able to cast a spell by a look that rendered one unable to move or resist. Sense of "delight, attract" is first recorded 1815. Related: Fascinated; fascinating.

verb captivate, hold spellbound

Example sentences :

There are times when it fascinates us with its whirling charm.
Extract from : « Out-of-Doors in the Holy Land » by Henry Van Dyke

You feel I know not what primitive force which repels and yet fascinates you.
Extract from : « The Moon and Sixpence » by W. Somerset Maugham

I don't like it as well as the other kind, though it fascinates me.
Extract from : « Patchwork » by Anna Balmer Myers

Fascinates the mind like the gathering and bursting of a storm.
Extract from : « Wayside Courtships » by Hamlin Garland

It fascinates him like a game, and you often hear him describe it as a "game."
Extract from : « If You Don't Write Fiction » by Charles Phelps Cushing

For there was something grand in Egerton,—something that commands and fascinates the young.
Extract from : « My Novel, Complete » by Edward Bulwer-Lytton

These are the men and women whom she fascinates and alienates.
Extract from : « The Essays of "George Eliot" » by George Eliot

I admire her very much; she fascinates and yet repels me, but I do not think I could love her very much.
Extract from : « Our Bessie » by Rosa Nouchette Carey

And it is that which, above all, at once fascinates and intimidates us.
Extract from : « The Sea » by Jules Michelet

Certainly it fascinates as nothing else fascinates in Nature.
Extract from : « In the Open » by Stanton Davis Kirkham

Synonyms for fascinates

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