Transfixed vs Amazed - What's the difference?

transfixed | amazed |


As adjectives the difference between transfixed and amazed

is that transfixed is rendered motionless by completely focused attention, rapt, entranced, mesmerized while amazed is astonished; confounded with fear, surprise, or wonder; greatly surprised.

As verbs the difference between transfixed and amazed

is that transfixed is past tense of transfix while amazed is past tense of amaze.

transfixed

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Rendered motionless by completely focused attention, rapt, entranced, mesmerized.
  • Synonyms

    * rapt * enthralled * entranced * mesmerized * hypnotized

    Verb

    (head)
  • (transfix)
  • amazed

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Astonished; confounded with fear, surprise, or wonder; greatly surprised.
  • *
  • *:And it was while all were passionately intent upon the pleasing and snake-like progress of their uncle that a young girl in furs, ascending the stairs two at a time, peeped perfunctorily into the nursery as she passed the hallway—and halted amazed .
  • *{{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
  • , chapter=8 citation , passage=It was a casual sneer, obviously one of a long line. There was hatred behind it, but of a quiet, chronic type, nothing new or unduly virulent, and he was taken aback by the flicker of amazed incredulity that passed over the younger man's ravaged face.}}

    Synonyms

    * See also

    Verb

    (head)
  • (amaze)
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