Rapt

Adjective

 * 1) 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.
 * 1) * 1908, Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows
 * The Rat never answered, if indeed he heard. Rapt, transported, trembling, he was possessed in all his senses by this new divine thing that caught up his helpless soul and swung and dandled it, a powerless but happy infant in a strong sustaining grasp.
 * 1)  Happy or elated.
 * He was rapt with his exam results.
 * 1) lifted up into the air; transported into heaven.

Synonyms

 * See also Thesaurus:rapt

Related terms

 * rapture

Thesaurus
absent, absentminded, absorbed, abstracted, arrested, assiduous, beatific, bemused, bewitched, blissful, buried in thought, bursting with happiness, captivated, carried away, castle-building, caught, charmed, constant, continuing, daydreaming, daydreamy, deep, delighted, diligent, dogged, dreaming, dreamy, drowsing, ecstatic, elate, elated, elsewhere, enchanted, enduring, engaged, engaged in thought, engrossed, engrossed in thought, enraptured, enravished, enthralled, entranced, exalted, exultant, faithful, faraway, fascinated, fixed, flushed, freaked out, gripped, half-awake, happy, held, high, hypnotized, immersed, immersed in thought, immutable, imparadised, in a reverie, in ecstasies, in heaven, in paradise, in raptures, in seventh heaven, in the clouds, inalterable, indefatigable, indomitable, industrious, insistent, introspective, invincible, joyful, joyous, jubilant, lasting, lost, lost in thought, loyal, meditative, mesmerized, mooning, moonraking, museful, musing, napping, never-tiring, nodding, oblivious, obstinate, occupied, on cloud nine, overjoyed, overjoyful, patient, patient as Job, pensive, permanent, perseverant, persevering, persistent, persisting, pertinacious, pipe-dreaming, plodding, plugging, possessed, preoccupied, raptured, rapturous, ravished, relentless, resolute, rhapsodic, sedulous, sent, single-minded, sleepless, slogging, somewhere else, spellbound, stable, stargazing, steadfast, steady, stubborn, taken up, tenacious, tireless, transported, unabating, unconquerable, unconscious, undaunted, undiscouraged, undrooping, unfailing, unfaltering, unflagging, unflinching, unintermitting, uninterrupted, unnodding, unrelaxing, unrelenting, unremitting, unsleeping, unswerving, untiring, unwavering, unwearied, unwearying, unwinking, utterly attentive, weariless, woolgathering, wrapped, wrapped in thought, wrapped up

Etymology
From raptor: from  rapere:

Pronunciation

 * , {{SAMPA|/"r{pt/}}
 * Homophones: wrapped, wrapt
 * Homophones: wrapped, wrapt

Translations

 * Dutch: gefascineerd
 * Hebrew: מרותק


 * Romanian:
 * Russian: ,

Anagrams

 * part, prat, tarp, trap