captivated
adjective, verb
captivated is an adjective meaning “rapt; mesmerized” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled C-A-P-T-I-V-A-T-E-D and has 4 syllables, and it appears 1.0 times per million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does captivated mean?
adjective
- 1
rapt; mesmerized
verb
- 1
simple past and past participle of captivate
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce captivated?
Captivated has 4 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of captivated
- more captivated comparative
- most captivated superlative
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is captivated?
Captivated appears 1.0 times per million words in written English, the 28,556th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).