entrancing

adjective. deeply engaging

Word Origin & History

1520s, "act of entering," from Middle French entrance, from entrer (see enter). Sense of "door, gate" first recorded in English 1530s.

I was seeing fashionable life for the first time, and it was entrancing.

Some of the younger girls are beautiful, and most of the children are entrancing.

He has before him a field of historical research of most entrancing interest.

Those were years of depravity, but they were entrancing in memory.

She smiled with entrancing sweetness, and held out her hands.

They sang as they went away the most entrancing music that was ever heard.

And when they had finished, they commenced singing, and the singing was entrancing.

And it was indeed an entrancing spot to the Karoo-worn warrior.

It was only necessary for her to say, in tones so entrancing that you heard them, "My Wallace!"

Climb the higher parts for a bird's-eye view of the city, and the scene is entrancing.