Admire vs Transfixed - What's the difference?
admire | transfixed |
(obsolete) To be amazed at; to view with surprise; to marvel at.
*, II.2.4:
* Fuller
To regard with wonder and delight.
to look upon with an elevated feeling of pleasure, as something which calls out approbation, esteem, love or reverence;
to estimate or prize highly.
Rendered motionless by completely focused attention, rapt, entranced, mesmerized.
(transfix)
As verbs the difference between admire and transfixed
is that admire is while transfixed is (transfix).As an adjective transfixed is
rendered motionless by completely focused attention, rapt, entranced, mesmerized.admire
English
Verb
(admir)- The poor fellow, admiring how he came there, was served in state all day long […].
- examples rather to be admired than imitated
- to admire''' a person of high moral worth, to '''admire a landscape