fascinate

Other forms of fascinate

past tense

fascinated·

present participle

fascinating·

third person

fascinates·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about fascinate

What does fascinate mean?

fascinate means "cause to be interested or curious". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in fascinate?

fascinate has 3 syllables: fas-ci-nate. The stress falls on "fas". In IPA it is /ˈfæsəˌneɪt/.

What is another word for fascinate?

Close synonyms include intrigue, transfix, grip, spellbind, capture. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is fascinate a common word?

fascinate is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with fascinate?

52 words rhyme with fascinate. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.