rapt

adjective more rapt · rapter · most rapt · raptest

1. archaic, not comparable Snatched, taken away; abducted. And through the Greeks and Ilians they rapt / The whirring chariot.
2. not comparable Lifted up into the air; transported into heaven.
3. 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.
4. comparable Enthusiastic; ecstatic, elated, happy. He was rapt with his exam results.

Similar: absorbed, bewitched, captivated, enchanted, engaged, engrossed, enthralled, entranced, fascinated, hypnotized, interested, mesmerized, rapt, spellbound, transfixed · Opposite: apathetic, uninterested, unconcerned

verb rapts · rapting · rapted · rapt

1. obsolete To transport or ravish. The Bards with furie rapt, the British youth among, Unto the charming Harpe thy future honor song
2. obsolete To carry away by force. 1819-20, Washington Irving, The Spectre Bridegroom, The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent., reprinted in 1840, The Works of Washington Irving, Volume 1, page 256, His only daughter had either been rapt away to the grave, or he was to have some wood-demon for a son-in-law, and, perchance, a troop

noun rapts

1. obsolete An ecstasy; a trance. the soul then is in rapt
2. obsolete Rapidity. […] like the great exemplary wheeles of heaven, we must observe two Circles: that while we are daily carried about, and whirled on by the swinge and rapt of the one, we may maintain a naturall and proper course, in the slow and sober wheele of the other.