ENCHANTED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does enchanted mean? 

• ENCHANTED (adjective)
  The adjective ENCHANTED has 1 sense:

1. influenced as by charms or incantations

  Familiarity information: ENCHANTED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ENCHANTED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Influenced as by charms or incantations

Similar:

beguiled; captivated; charmed; delighted; enthralled; entranced (filled with wonder and delight)

bewitched; ensorcelled (captured, as if under a spell)

star-struck (fascinated by a famous person)

fascinated; hypnotised; hypnotized; mesmerised; mesmerized; spell-bound; spellbound; transfixed (having your attention fixated as though by a spell)

Antonym:

disenchanted (freed from enchantment)

 Context examples 

But the lion was an enchanted prince.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

To Jo's lively fancy, this fine house seemed a kind of enchanted palace, full of splendors and delights which no one enjoyed.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

“Exactly!” cried Mr. Dick, who seemed quite enchanted by my reply.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Valentine’s Day is a private day meant to give you time to concentrate on the one you love—it is your enchanted evening.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

My brother and sister will be enchanted with this place.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

After this the enchanted axe cut off my arms, one after the other; but, nothing daunted, I had them replaced with tin ones.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

But I was enchanted by the appearance of the hut; here the snow and rain could not penetrate; the ground was dry; and it presented to me then as exquisite and divine a retreat as Pandæmonium appeared to the dæmons of hell after their sufferings in the lake of fire.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

For I would have you give an hour or two a day whilst you are with us in discoursing with my daughter, the Lady Maude; for she is somewhat backward, I fear, and hath no love for letters, save for these poor fond romances, which do but fill her empty head with dreams of enchanted maidens and of errant cavaliers.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

One had to pinch oneself to be sure that one was awake as one heard this sane and practical Professor in cold measured tones describing the monstrous three-eyed fish-lizards and the huge water-snakes which inhabit this enchanted sheet of water.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He was enchanted by her approbation of his taste, confessed it to be neat and simple, thought it right to encourage the manufacture of his country; and for his part, to his uncritical palate, the tea was as well flavoured from the clay of Staffordshire, as from that of Dresden or Save.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)