| fascinate | | |
| v. (stative) | 1. fascinate, intrigue | cause to be interested or curious. |
| ~ grab, seize | capture the attention or imagination of.; "This story will grab you"; "The movie seized my imagination" |
| ~ matter to, interest | be of importance or consequence.; "This matters to me!" |
| v. (emotion) | 2. fascinate, grip, spellbind, transfix | to render motionless, as with a fixed stare or by arousing terror or awe.; "The snake charmer fascinates the cobra" |
| ~ interest | excite the curiosity of; engage the interest of. |
| v. (emotion) | 3. becharm, beguile, bewitch, captivate, capture, catch, charm, enamor, enamour, enchant, entrance, fascinate, trance | attract; cause to be enamored.; "She captured all the men's hearts" |
| ~ hold | hold the attention of.; "The soprano held the audience"; "This story held our interest"; "She can hold an audience spellbound" |
| ~ attract, appeal | be attractive to.; "The idea of a vacation appeals to me"; "The beautiful garden attracted many people" |
| ~ work | gratify and charm, usually in order to influence.; "the political candidate worked the crowds" |
| queer | | |
| n. (person) | 1. fag, faggot, fagot, fairy, nance, pansy, poof, poove, pouf, queen, queer | offensive term for an openly homosexual man. |
| ~ derogation, disparagement, depreciation | a communication that belittles somebody or something. |
| ~ gay man, shirtlifter | a homosexual man. |
| v. (social) | 2. baffle, bilk, cross, foil, frustrate, queer, scotch, spoil, thwart | hinder or prevent (the efforts, plans, or desires) of.; "What ultimately frustrated every challenger was Ruth's amazing September surge"; "foil your opponent" |
| ~ disappoint, let down | fail to meet the hopes or expectations of.; "Her boyfriend let her down when he did not propose marriage" |
| ~ foreclose, forestall, preclude, prevent, forbid | keep from happening or arising; make impossible.; "My sense of tact forbids an honest answer"; "Your role in the projects precludes your involvement in the competitive project" |
| ~ dash | destroy or break.; "dashed ambitions and hopes" |
| ~ short-circuit | hamper the progress of; impede.; "short-circuit warm feelings" |
| ~ ruin | destroy or cause to fail.; "This behavior will ruin your chances of winning the election" |
| v. (communication) | 3. endanger, expose, peril, queer, scupper | put in a dangerous, disadvantageous, or difficult position. |
| ~ affect, bear upon, bear on, impact, touch on, touch | have an effect upon.; "Will the new rules affect me?" |
| ~ compromise | expose or make liable to danger, suspicion, or disrepute.; "The nuclear secrets of the state were compromised by the spy" |
| adj. | 4. curious, funny, odd, peculiar, queer, rum, rummy, singular | beyond or deviating from the usual or expected.; "a curious hybrid accent"; "her speech has a funny twang"; "they have some funny ideas about war"; "had an odd name"; "the peculiar aromatic odor of cloves"; "something definitely queer about this town"; "what a rum fellow"; "singular behavior" |
| ~ strange, unusual | being definitely out of the ordinary and unexpected; slightly odd or even a bit weird.; "a strange exaltation that was indefinable"; "a strange fantastical mind"; "what a strange sense of humor she has" |
| adj. | 5. gay, homophile, queer | homosexual or arousing homosexual desires. |
| ~ homosexual | sexually attracted to members of your own sex. |
| strange | | |
| adj. | 1. strange, unusual | being definitely out of the ordinary and unexpected; slightly odd or even a bit weird.; "a strange exaltation that was indefinable"; "a strange fantastical mind"; "what a strange sense of humor she has" |
| ~ antic, fantastic, fantastical, grotesque | ludicrously odd.; "Hamlet's assumed antic disposition"; "fantastic Halloween costumes"; "a grotesque reflection in the mirror" |
| ~ crazy | bizarre or fantastic.; "had a crazy dream"; "wore a crazy hat" |
| ~ curious, peculiar, queer, rum, rummy, funny, singular, odd | beyond or deviating from the usual or expected.; "a curious hybrid accent"; "her speech has a funny twang"; "they have some funny ideas about war"; "had an odd name"; "the peculiar aromatic odor of cloves"; "something definitely queer about this town"; "what a rum fellow"; "singular behavior" |
| ~ eery, eerie | inspiring a feeling of fear; strange and frightening.; "an uncomfortable and eerie stillness in the woods"; "an eerie midnight howl" |
| ~ exotic | strikingly strange or unusual.; "an exotic hair style"; "protons, neutrons, electrons and all their exotic variants"; "the exotic landscape of a dead planet" |
| ~ freaky | strange and somewhat frightening.; "the whole experience was really freaky" |
| ~ gothic | characterized by gloom and mystery and the grotesque.; "gothic novels like `Frankenstein'" |
| ~ oddish | somewhat strange. |
| ~ other | very unusual; different in character or quality from the normal or expected.; "a strange, other dimension...where his powers seemed to fail" |
| ~ quaint | strange in an interesting or pleasing way.; "quaint dialect words"; "quaint streets of New Orleans, that most foreign of American cities" |
| ~ quaint | very strange or unusual; odd or even incongruous in character or appearance.; "the head terminating in the quaint duck bill which gives the animal its vernacular name"; "came forth a quaint and fearful sight"; "a quaint sense of humor" |
| ~ weird | strikingly odd or unusual.; "some trick of the moonlight; some weird effect of shadow" |
| adj. | 2. strange, unknown | not known before.; "used many strange words"; "saw many strange faces in the crowd"; "don't let anyone unknown into the house" |
| ~ unfamiliar | not known or well known.; "a name unfamiliar to most"; "be alert at night especially in unfamiliar surroundings" |
| adj. | 3. foreign, strange | relating to or originating in or characteristic of another place or part of the world.; "foreign nations"; "a foreign accent"; "on business in a foreign city" |
| ~ adventive | not native and not fully established; locally or temporarily naturalized.; "an adventive weed" |
| ~ exotic, alien | being or from or characteristic of another place or part of the world.; "alien customs"; "exotic plants in a greenhouse"; "exotic cuisine" |
| ~ nonnative | of plants or animals originating in a part of the world other than where they are growing. |
| ~ naturalized, established | introduced from another region and persisting without cultivation. |
| ~ foreign-born, nonnative | of persons born in another area or country than that lived in.; "our large nonnative population" |
| ~ imported | used of especially merchandise brought from a foreign source.; "imported wines" |
| ~ tramontane | being or coming from another country.; "tramontane influences" |
| ~ unnaturalised, unnaturalized | not having acquired citizenship. |
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