Usually means: Held motionless by fascination, awe.
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General (18 matching dictionaries)
  1. transfixed: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. transfixed: Merriam-Webster
  3. transfixed: Collins English Dictionary
  4. transfixed: Vocabulary.com
  5. Transfixed, transfixed: Wordnik
  6. transfixed: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. transfixed: Wiktionary
  8. transfixed: Dictionary.com
  9. transfixed: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  10. Transfixed: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  11. transfixed: Rhymezone
  12. Transfixed: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  13. transfixed: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  14. transfixed: FreeDictionary.org
  15. transfixed: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. transfixed: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. transfixed: Legal dictionary

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. transfixed: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. transfixed: Medical dictionary

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▸ adjective:  Rendered motionless by completely focused attention, rapt, entranced, mesmerized.

Similar:
mesmerized, hypnotized, spellbound, fascinated, enchanted, hypnotised, mesmerised, tranced, entranced, bewrapt, more...

Opposite:
distracted, distractedness, distraction

Types:
mesmerized, spellbound, captivated, charmed, enchanted, fascinated, more...

Phrases:
Time Transfixed, transfixed by, entranced transfixed, more...

Adjectives:
first, second, next, other, most

Colors:
    silver,     sapphire,     emerald,     amethyst,     ruby, more...



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Similar:
mesmerized, hypnotized, spellbound, fascinated, enchanted, hypnotised, mesmerised, tranced, entranced, bewrapt, more...

Opposite:
distracted, distractedness, distraction

Types:
mesmerized, spellbound, captivated, charmed, enchanted, fascinated, more...

Phrases:
Time Transfixed, transfixed by, entranced transfixed, more...

Adjectives:
first, second, next, other, most

Colors:
    silver,     sapphire,     emerald,     amethyst,     ruby, more...



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