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Enthusiastic vs Intrigued - What's the difference?

enthusiastic | intrigued |

As an adjective enthusiastic

is with zealous fervor; excited, motivated.

As a verb intrigued is

(intrigue).

enthusiastic

English

(enthusiasm)

Alternative forms

* (l) (obsolete)

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • With zealous fervor; excited, motivated.
  • A young man of a visionary and enthusiastic character. — W. Irving.
    an enthusiastic lover of art

    Derived terms

    * (l)

    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.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2012-03
  • , 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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