fascinating

The word “fascinating” has 4 syllables: fas-ci-nat-ing

It's pronounced as /ˈfæs.ɪ.neɪ.tɪŋ/


What is synonym and antonym for fascinating?

In the thesaurus, “fascinating” has 110 synonyms and 59 antonyms.

Here are synonyms and antonyms for fascinating along with examples of usage in sentences.


Synonyms for fascinating

  • absorbing
  • alluring
  • amazing
  • amusing
  • appealing
  • arresting
  • astonishing
  • astounding
  • attracting
  • attractive
  • beckoning
  • bedazzling
  • beguiling
  • bemusing
  • bewitching
  • breathtaking
  • busying
  • captivating
  • catching up
  • charismatic
  • charming
  • compelling
  • consuming
  • courting
  • curious
  • darling
  • delectable
  • delightful
  • delighting
  • disarming
  • distracting
  • drawing
  • electric
  • electrifying
  • elfin
  • emphatic
  • enchanting
  • engaging
  • engrossing
  • enrapturing
  • entertaining
  • enthralling
  • enticing
  • entrancing
  • enwrapping
  • eventful
  • exciting
  • exhilarating
  • eye-opening
  • fabulous
  • fetching
  • galvanic
  • galvanizing
  • glamorous
  • glamourous
  • gratifying
  • gripping
  • haunting
  • hogging
  • hypnotic
  • hypnotizing
  • immersing
  • inspiring
  • interesting
  • intriguing
  • inviting
  • involving
  • irresistible
  • killing
  • luring
  • magnetic
  • magnetizing
  • marvellous
  • marvelous
  • mesmerizing
  • monopolizing
  • obsessing
  • occupying
  • odd
  • pleasant
  • pleasing
  • preoccupying
  • provocative
  • pulling
  • ravishing
  • riveting
  • rousing
  • seducing
  • seductive
  • showy
  • siren
  • soliciting
  • spellbinding
  • splashy
  • stimulating
  • stirring
  • striking
  • surprising
  • tantalizing
  • tempting
  • thrilling
  • titillating
  • unusual
  • weird
  • wiling
  • winning
  • witching
  • wonderful
  • wondrous
  • wooing

Antonyms for fascinating

  • abhorrent
  • abominable
  • annoying
  • appalling
  • awful
  • boring
  • demoralizing
  • discouraging
  • disgusting
  • disheartening
  • dispiriting
  • displeasing
  • distasteful
  • drab
  • dreary
  • dry
  • dull
  • flat
  • heavy
  • hideous
  • horrendous
  • horrible
  • horrid
  • humdrum
  • invidious
  • irking
  • irksome
  • jading
  • leaden
  • loathsome
  • monotonous
  • nauseating
  • noisome
  • obnoxious
  • odious
  • offending
  • offensive
  • operose
  • palling
  • pedantic
  • pedestrian
  • ponderous
  • repellant
  • repellent
  • repelling
  • repugnant
  • repulsive
  • revolting
  • shocking
  • sickening
  • sterile
  • tedious
  • tiresome
  • tiring
  • unalluring
  • unexciting
  • uninteresting
  • wearisome
  • wearying

Meanings of fascinating

  • verb
    1. To evoke an intense interest or attraction in someone.
    2. To make someone hold motionless; to spellbind.
    3. To be irresistibly charming or attractive to.
  • adjective
    1. Having interesting qualities; captivating; attractive.

Example Sentences

  • The lecture on black holes was absolutely fascinating.
  • She finds marine biology to be a fascinating field of study.
  • The documentary provided a fascinating glimpse into ancient civilizations.
  • He shared a fascinating story about his travels through remote regions.
  • The way the magician performed the trick was truly fascinating to watch.

On this page you'll find 169 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to fascinating, such as: abhorrent, abominable, absorbing, alluring, amazing, amusing, annoying.

Make sure to choose synonyms and antonyms that are appropriate for the context of the sentence.

Related Words

fabulous

  • 10
  • A-1
  • A-OK
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  • abstract
  • acceptable
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  • fine
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  • gangbuster
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  • imaginal
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  • mean
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  • mythic
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  • neat
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  • nonexistent
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  • number one
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  • okay
  • out of this world
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  • peachy
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  • phantasmal
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  • phantom
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  • pictured
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  • pretend
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  • prodigious
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  • rad
  • radical
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  • supernal
  • surprising
  • swell
  • terrific
  • theoretic
  • theoretical
  • tip-top
  • tolerable
  • too much
  • top
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  • top-notch
  • top-of-the-line
  • top-shelf
  • topflight
  • topping
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  • traditional
  • unbelievable
  • uncommon
  • unconvincing
  • unimaginable
  • unique
  • unlikely
  • unreal
  • unsurpassed
  • unthinkable
  • unusual
  • unwonted
  • visionary
  • visualized
  • wicked
  • wizard
  • wonderful
  • wondrous

zesty

  • absorbing
  • acid
  • acrid
  • acrimonious
  • active
  • acute
  • alert
  • ambrosial
  • animate
  • animated
  • animating
  • antic
  • appetizing
  • ardent
  • aromal
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  • arresting
  • audacious
  • avid
  • barbed
  • biting
  • bitter
  • bold
  • bouncy
  • brash
  • brave
  • breezy
  • bright
  • bubbling
  • buoyant
  • burning
  • caustic
  • cheerful
  • chirpy
  • clever
  • coltish
  • courageous
  • cutting
  • dashing
  • dauntless
  • delectable
  • delicious
  • distinctive
  • dynamic
  • eager
  • ebullient
  • effervescent
  • effluvious
  • electrifying
  • energetic
  • energizing
  • engaging
  • engrossing
  • enlightening
  • entertaining
  • enthralling
  • enthusiastic
  • exciting
  • exhilarating
  • exuberant
  • fascinating
  • fearless
  • fiery
  • flavorful
  • flavorsome
  • forceful
  • forcible
  • fragrant
  • fresh
  • frolicsome
  • full of beans
  • full of life
  • full of spirit
  • galvanizing
  • game
  • gamesome
  • gay
  • gingery
  • gripping
  • gritty
  • gutsy
  • happy
  • harsh
  • heady
  • herbaceous
  • high-spirited
  • highly seasoned
  • hot
  • hyper
  • in high spirits
  • incisive
  • interesting
  • intrepid
  • intriguing
  • invigorating
  • jolly
  • jumping
  • jumpy
  • keen
  • kittenish
  • larkish
  • lighthearted
  • lively
  • luscious
  • merry
  • mettlesome
  • mordant
  • nervy
  • nosey
  • odoriferous
  • palatable
  • passionate
  • penetrating
  • peppery
  • peppy
  • perfumed
  • perky
  • pert
  • piercing
  • piquant
  • piquing
  • playful
  • plucky
  • poignant
  • pointed
  • prankish
  • provocative
  • provoking
  • pungent
  • racy
  • redolent
  • resolute
  • responsive
  • rich
  • riveting
  • rocking
  • rollicking
  • romping
  • salt
  • salty
  • sarcastic
  • saucy
  • savorous
  • savory
  • savoury
  • scathing
  • scented
  • scintillating
  • scrumptious
  • seasoned
  • sensitive
  • severe
  • sharp
  • snappy
  • sound
  • sour
  • sparkling
  • spicy
  • spirited
  • sportive
  • sprightly
  • spunky
  • stimulating
  • stinging
  • stinking
  • stringent
  • strong
  • sweet
  • swinging
  • tangy
  • tart
  • tasty
  • telling
  • toothsome
  • tough
  • trenchant
  • upbeat
  • vibrant
  • vigorous
  • vinegary
  • virile
  • vital
  • vivacious
  • vivid
  • well-flavored
  • whiffy
  • wicked
  • with a kick
  • witty
  • zappy
  • zealous
  • zestful
  • zingy
  • zippy

zingy

  • absorbing
  • activated
  • active
  • acute
  • agile
  • airy
  • alert
  • ambrosial
  • amusing
  • animate
  • animated
  • animating
  • appetizing
  • ardent
  • arresting
  • audacious
  • avid
  • ball of fire
  • biting
  • bitter
  • blithe
  • blithesome
  • boisterous
  • bold
  • boon
  • bouncy
  • brash
  • brave
  • breezy
  • bright
  • bright-eyed and bushy-tailed
  • brisk
  • bubbly
  • bucked
  • buoyant
  • burning
  • carefree
  • cheerful
  • cheery
  • chipper
  • chirpy
  • clever
  • comic
  • comical
  • contented
  • convivial
  • courageous
  • cutting
  • dapper
  • dashing
  • dauntless
  • delectable
  • delicious
  • dynamic
  • eager
  • ebullient
  • effervescent
  • elated
  • energetic
  • energized
  • energizing
  • engaging
  • engrossing
  • enjoyable
  • enlightening
  • enlivening
  • enterprising
  • entertaining
  • enthralling
  • enthusiastic
  • excited
  • exciting
  • exhilarated
  • exuberant
  • facetious
  • fairylike
  • fascinating
  • fearless
  • fervent
  • fiery
  • flavorful
  • frolicsome
  • full of energy
  • full of ginger
  • full of life
  • full of pep
  • full of piss and vinegar
  • full of vitality
  • fun-loving
  • funny
  • galvanizing
  • game
  • gay
  • gingery
  • glad
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  • gleeful
  • good
  • good-humored
  • good-natured
  • gripping
  • gritty
  • grooving
  • gutsy
  • happy
  • hearty
  • high
  • high-powered
  • high-spirited
  • hilarious
  • hopeful
  • hot
  • humorous
  • hyper
  • in good spirits
  • in high spirits
  • interesting
  • intrepid
  • intriguing
  • invigorating
  • irrepressible
  • jaunty
  • jocund
  • jolly
  • joyful
  • joyous
  • jumping
  • keen
  • keen-witted
  • kinetic
  • larking
  • light
  • lighthearted
  • lively
  • luscious
  • mad
  • merry
  • mettlesome
  • mirthful
  • mordant
  • nervy
  • nimble
  • optimistic
  • palatable
  • passionate
  • peppery
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  • perky
  • pert
  • piquant
  • piquing
  • playful
  • pleasant
  • plucky
  • poignant
  • potent
  • powerful
  • provocative
  • provoking
  • pungent
  • quick
  • quick-witted
  • racy
  • resolute
  • riotous
  • rip-roaring
  • riveting
  • rocking
  • rollicking
  • roseate
  • rosy
  • salty
  • sanguine
  • saturnalian
  • saucy
  • savorous
  • savory
  • savoury
  • scintillating
  • scrumptious
  • sharp
  • smart
  • snappy
  • sparkling
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  • spicy
  • spirited
  • sportive
  • sprightly
  • spry
  • spunky
  • strong
  • sunny
  • swinging
  • tasty
  • tireless
  • toothsome
  • trenchant
  • unconstrained
  • untiring
  • up
  • upbeat
  • uproarious
  • vibrant
  • vigorous
  • vinegary
  • vital
  • vitalized
  • vivacious
  • vivid
  • wild
  • winsome
  • zappy
  • zealous
  • zestful
  • zesty
  • zippy

darling

  • admirable
  • admired
  • admirer
  • adorable
  • adored
  • affable
  • agreeable
  • alluring
  • amiable
  • amour
  • amusing
  • angel
  • appealing
  • appreciated
  • attractive
  • baby
  • beau
  • beautiful
  • beloved
  • blessed
  • blest
  • blissful
  • boy
  • boyfriend
  • bride
  • calming
  • captivating
  • charming
  • cheerful
  • cheery
  • cherished
  • comfortable
  • comforting
  • congenial
  • cordial
  • crush
  • cup of tea
  • date
  • dear
  • dear one
  • dearest
  • dearie
  • delectable
  • delicious
  • delightful
  • delightsome
  • desirable
  • disarming
  • diverting
  • doll
  • dreamy
  • dulcet
  • ecstatic
  • elating
  • embraceable
  • enchanting
  • endearing
  • engaging
  • enjoyable
  • entertaining
  • entrancing
  • enviable
  • escort
  • esteemed
  • euphoric
  • exhilarating
  • fair-haired
  • fair-haired boy
  • fascinating
  • fave
  • favored
  • favorite
  • felicific
  • felicitous
  • fellow
  • fetching
  • flame
  • fond
  • friend
  • friendly
  • gal
  • gallant
  • genial
  • girl
  • girlfriend
  • glad
  • good
  • good-natured
  • good-tempered
  • goodly
  • gracious
  • grateful
  • gratifying
  • groom
  • happy
  • heartthrob
  • heavenly
  • hon
  • honey
  • honeybunch
  • hospitable
  • husband
  • inamorata
  • intended
  • intoxicating
  • inviting
  • jewel
  • jolly
  • joyous
  • kind
  • kindly
  • kissable
  • ladylove
  • lass
  • light of my life
  • likable
  • likeable
  • lovable
  • love
  • loveable
  • loved
  • lovely
  • lover
  • lovesome
  • luscious
  • man
  • minion
  • mistress
  • nice
  • nirvanic
  • one and only
  • palatable
  • paramour
  • personable
  • pet
  • pleasant
  • pleasing
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  • precious
  • preference
  • preferred
  • pretty
  • prize
  • prized
  • rapturous
  • recreative
  • relishable
  • relished
  • reputable
  • respectable
  • revered
  • satisfying
  • savory
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  • significant other
  • soothing
  • special
  • speed
  • squeeze
  • steady
  • sugar
  • suitor
  • swain
  • sweet
  • sweetheart
  • sweetie
  • sweetie pie
  • tasty
  • tempting
  • tootsie
  • treasure
  • treasured
  • truelove
  • welcome
  • well-disposed
  • white-headed
  • wife
  • winning
  • winsome
  • wooer

fair

  • Junoesque
  • OK
  • abluted
  • about
  • aboveboard
  • absolute
  • acceptable
  • accurate
  • adequate
  • aesthetic
  • aesthetical
  • all but
  • all right
  • all-out
  • alluring
  • almost
  • alright
  • antiseptic
  • appealing
  • applicable
  • appreciably
  • appropriate
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  • argent
  • arrant
  • arresting
  • as good as
  • ash-blond
  • ash-blonde
  • ashen
  • ashy
  • assured
  • attractive
  • auction
  • auspicious
  • authentic
  • average
  • balanced
  • balmy
  • bazaar
  • beamish
  • beauteous
  • beautiful
  • benevolent
  • blameless
  • blanched
  • blank
  • bleached
  • blond
  • blonde
  • blondish
  • blooming
  • bodacious
  • bonnie
  • bonny
  • borderline
  • bright
  • bullish
  • by and large
  • calm
  • candid
  • categoric
  • categorical
  • celebration
  • centennial
  • chalky
  • charming
  • chaste
  • cheering
  • chiefly
  • chocolate-box
  • civil
  • clarion
  • classic
  • clean
  • cleanly
  • cleansed
  • clear
  • clement
  • cloudless
  • colorless
  • comely
  • comforting
  • common
  • commonplace
  • competent
  • complete
  • condign
  • confident
  • confirmed
  • constant
  • consummate
  • correct
  • courteous
  • crashing
  • creamy
  • cunning
  • cute
  • dainty
  • damn
  • damned
  • dead
  • deadly
  • decent
  • decisive
  • definite
  • delicate
  • delightful
  • demonstration
  • deserved
  • desirable
  • dishy
  • disinterested
  • dispassionate
  • display
  • dollish
  • doubtless
  • downright
  • dreadful
  • drop-dead
  • dry
  • due
  • elegant
  • enchanting
  • encouraging
  • endless
  • engaging
  • equal
  • equitable
  • esthetic
  • esthetical
  • eternal
  • ethical
  • ethically
  • eupeptic
  • even-handed
  • evenhanded
  • exhibit
  • exhibition
  • expo
  • exposition
  • exquisite
  • extraordinary
  • extravaganza
  • extreme
  • eye-catching
  • faded
  • fair-haired
  • fair-skinned
  • fairish
  • fairly
  • fascinating
  • favorable
  • feckly
  • festival
  • fetching
  • fete
  • fine
  • fit
  • fitting
  • flamboyant
  • flashy
  • flat
  • flat-out
  • flawless
  • flaxen
  • flaxen-haired
  • forthright
  • foxy
  • frank
  • frightful
  • gala
  • generous
  • gentle
  • genuine
  • germfree
  • glamorous
  • glamourous
  • glorious
  • glossy
  • gold
  • golden
  • good
  • good-looking
  • goodly
  • gorgeous
  • habitual
  • halcyon
  • handsome
  • heartening
  • high-mindedly
  • honest
  • honorable
  • honorably
  • hopeful
  • hopeless
  • horrible
  • hot
  • huge
  • hunky
  • hygienic
  • immaculate
  • impartial
  • indifferent
  • intermediate
  • inveterate
  • irreproachable
  • just
  • just about
  • justified
  • kind of
  • knockout
  • largely
  • law-abiding
  • lawful
  • legal
  • legally
  • legitimate
  • light
  • likely
  • lovely
  • lovesome
  • luscious
  • magnificent
  • main
  • mainly
  • market
  • mean
  • mediocre
  • medium
  • meet
  • merited
  • middling
  • mild
  • milky
  • minimal
  • moderate
  • modest
  • moral
  • morally
  • more or less
  • most
  • mostly
  • much
  • near
  • nearly
  • neutral
  • next to
  • nice
  • nigh
  • nobly
  • nonpartisan
  • not bad
  • nubile
  • objective
  • observance
  • occasion
  • ocherous
  • ochreous
  • offering
  • okay
  • on the level
  • on the up and up
  • open
  • optimistic
  • ordinary
  • out-and-out
  • outright
  • pageant
  • pale
  • pale-faced
  • paled
  • palish
  • pallid
  • partially
  • partly
  • passable
  • pasty
  • peaceful
  • peaked
  • peaky
  • pearly
  • perfect
  • performance
  • perpetual
  • personable
  • photogenic
  • placid
  • pleasant
  • plumb
  • positive
  • practically
  • praiseworthy
  • prepossessing
  • presentable
  • presentation
  • presentment
  • pretty
  • pretty good
  • pretty much
  • prettyish
  • principled
  • pristine
  • production
  • profound
  • promising
  • proper
  • propitious
  • pulchritudinous
  • pure
  • purified
  • radiant
  • rainless
  • rank
  • rational
  • ravishing
  • real
  • reasonable
  • reassuring
  • regular
  • requisite
  • respectable
  • resplendent
  • rhadamanthine
  • right
  • righteous
  • rightful
  • rose-colored
  • roseate
  • rosy
  • run-of-mine
  • run-of-the-mill
  • run-of-the-mine
  • sale
  • sallow
  • sallowish
  • sandy
  • sanitary
  • satisfactory
  • scrubbed
  • scrupulous
  • second-class
  • second-rate
  • seductive
  • seemly
  • serene
  • sexy
  • sheer
  • shiny
  • show
  • showstopping
  • showy
  • sightly
  • silvery
  • simple
  • sincere
  • slick
  • smiling
  • snazzy
  • snowy
  • so-so
  • somewhat
  • somewhere
  • soothing
  • sparkling
  • spectacle
  • spic-and-span
  • spick-and-span
  • splashy
  • splendid
  • sportsmanlike
  • sportsmanly
  • spotless
  • square
  • squeaky-clean
  • stainless
  • stark
  • statuesque
  • sterile
  • stone
  • straight
  • straight-out
  • straightforward
  • straw
  • strawberry blond
  • strawberry blonde
  • strict
  • striking
  • stringent
  • studly
  • stunning
  • sublime
  • sufficient
  • sufficing
  • suitable
  • sunny
  • sunshiny
  • superb
  • superlative
  • supreme
  • sure
  • surpassing
  • taintless
  • taking
  • tawny
  • telegenic
  • temperate
  • terrible
  • terrific
  • thorough
  • thoroughgoing
  • tolerable
  • toothsome
  • total
  • tow-haired
  • tow-headed
  • towheaded
  • tranquil
  • true
  • trustworthy
  • unadulterated
  • unalloyed
  • unbiased
  • unblemished
  • unclouded
  • uncolored
  • uncompromising
  • unconditional
  • uncorrupted
  • undarkened
  • undefiled
  • undying
  • unexceptional
  • unhesitating
  • unimpeachable
  • unmitigated
  • unpolluted
  • unprejudiced
  • unqualified
  • unremitting
  • unrestricted
  • unsoiled
  • unstained
  • unsullied
  • untainted
  • unthreatening
  • up to standard
  • upbeat
  • upright
  • usual
  • utter
  • veritable
  • very
  • virtually
  • virtuous
  • wan
  • warranted
  • washed
  • well-favored
  • well-nigh
  • white
  • whitened
  • whitish
  • wholesome
  • within an inch of
  • zingy

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