Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

fascinous

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: fas-ci-nous
IPA

14

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

3

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Caused or acting by witchcraft.

Obsolete

Example Sentences

"fascinous diseases"
"[…] nor did I ever but once see him escape from the fascinous kind of influence which had seized upon him."
"[…] that time, when I almost cursed humanity at large, and believed it to be a fascinous frailty to call woman by any other name than fiend; […]"

Etymology

From Latin fascinum (“witchcraft”), akin to fascinare. See fascinate.

Usage

Obsolete

Questions

What does fascinous mean?: Caused or acting by witchcraft.
Where does fascinous come from?: From Latin fascinum (“witchcraft”), akin to fascinare. See fascinate.

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