fascinated
part of speech
adjective (fascinated); verb (fascinate, fascinates, fascinated, fascinating)
meaning for a pupil
1) Extremely interested in something, so that you want to keep watching or learning about it. tree →
2) Held still by something you cannot stop looking at, as if under a spell. tree →
sense 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 →
- The children watched the caterpillar, fascinated. tree →
- Toad was fascinated by the motor car. tree →
- She was fascinated with the stars and wanted to be an astronaut. tree →
- The cat sat fascinated by the goldfish. tree →
- We were fascinated to learn how bees make honey. tree →
- He did it with such an air, he was so frightfully distingué, that she was too fascinated to cry out. tree →
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.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «fascinated» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.