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Enchanted vs Intrigued - What's the difference?

enchanted | intrigued |

As verbs the difference between enchanted and intrigued

is that enchanted is (enchant) while intrigued is (intrigue).

As an adjective enchanted

is charmed, delighted, enraptured.

As an interjection enchanted

is (dated).

enchanted

English

Verb

(head)
  • (enchant)
  • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Charmed, delighted, enraptured.
  • Under the influence of enchantment.
  • Interjection

    (en interjection)
  • (dated)
  • intrigued

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (intrigue)

  • intrigue

    English

    Alternative forms

    * entrigue

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A complicated or clandestine plot or scheme intended to effect some purpose by secret artifice; conspiracy; stratagem.
  • The plot of a play, poem or romance; the series of complications in which a writer involves their imaginary characters.
  • Clandestine intercourse between persons; illicit intimacy; a liaison.
  • Verb

    (intrigu)
  • To conceive or carry out a secret plan intended to harm; to form a plot or scheme.
  • To arouse the interest of; to fascinate.
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  • , author= , title=Pixels or Perish , volume=100, issue=2, page=106 , magazine= citation , passage=Blackboard sketches, geological maps, diagrams of molecular structure, astronomical photographs, MRI images, the many varieties of statistical charts and graphs: These pictorial devices are indispensable tools for presenting evidence, for explaining a theory, for telling a story. And, on top of all that, they are ornaments; they entice and intrigue and sometimes delight.}}
  • To have clandestine or illicit intercourse.
  • To fill with artifice and duplicity; to complicate.
  • * Dr. J. Scott
  • How doth it [sin] perplex and intrigue the whole course of your lives!

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