Synonyms of the word captive


CAPTIVEABSORBED - ANIMAL - ATTENTIVE - BEAST - BRUTE - CONFINED - CREATURE - ENGROSSED - ENWRAPPED - FAUNA - IMPRISONED - INTENT - JAILED - PRISONER - UNFORTUNATE - UNFREE - WRAPPED

captive

  • n. One who has been captured or is otherwise confined.
  • n. One held prisoner.
  • n. (figuratively) One charmed or subdued by beauty, excellence, or affection; one who is captivated.
  • adj. Held prisoner; not free; confined.
  • adj. Subdued by love; charmed; captivated.
  • adj. Of or relating to bondage or confinement; serving to confine.
  • v. (transitive, archaic) To capture; to take captive.

absorbed

  • adj. Fully occupied with one's thoughts; engrossed.
  • adj. Something that has been absorbed, taken in, engulfed, imbibed, or assimilated.
  • v. simple past tense and past participle of absorb.

animal

  • n. In scientific usage, a multicellular organism that is usually mobile, whose cells are not encased in a…
  • n. In non-scientific usage, any member of the kingdom Animalia other than a human.
  • n. In non-scientific usage, any land-living vertebrate (i.e. not birds, fishes, insects etc.).
  • n. (figuratively) A person who behaves wildly; a bestial, brutal, brutish, cruel, or inhuman person.
  • n. (informal) A person of a particular type.
  • adj. Of or relating to animals.
  • adj. Raw, base, unhindered by social codes.
  • adj. Pertaining to the spirit or soul; relating to sensation or innervation.
  • adj. (slang, Ireland) Excellent.

attentive

  • adj. Paying attention; noticing, watching, listening, or attending closely.

beast

  • n. Any animal other than a human; usually only applied to land vertebrates, especially large or dangerous…
  • n. (more specific) A domestic animal, especially a bovine farm animal.
  • n. A person who behaves in a violent, antisocial or uncivilized manner.
  • n. (slang) A large and impressive thing or structure.
  • n. (slang) Someone who is particularly impressive, especially athletically or physically.
  • n. (slang, prisons) A sex offender.
  • n. (figuratively) Something unpleasant and difficult.
  • v. (Britain, military) to impose arduous exercises, either as training or as punishment.
  • adj. (slang) great; excellent; powerful.

brute

  • adj. Without reason or intelligence (of animals).
  • adj. Characteristic of unthinking animals; senseless, unreasoning (of humans).
  • adj. Being unconnected with intelligence or thought; purely material, senseless.
  • adj. Crude, unpolished.
  • adj. Strong, blunt, and spontaneous.
  • adj. Brutal; cruel; fierce; ferocious; savage; pitiless.
  • adj. Inexplicable.
  • n. (now archaic) An animal seen as being without human reason; a senseless beast.
  • n. A person with the characteristics of an unthinking animal; a coarse or brutal person.
  • n. (archaic, Britain, Cambridge University slang) One who has not yet matriculated.
  • v. Obsolete spelling of bruit.

confined

  • v. simple past tense and past participle of confine.
  • adj. Not free to move.

creature

  • n. (now rare) A created thing, whether animate or inanimate; a creation.
  • n. A living being; an animal or human.
  • n. A being subservient to or dependent upon another.

engrossed

  • v. simple past tense and past participle of engross.
  • adj. Preoccupied with something to the exclusion of everything else.
  • adj. (of a document) Finalized, written in large letters.

enwrapped

  • v. simple past tense and past participle of enwrap.

fauna

  • n. (uncountable) animals considered as a group; especially those of a particular country, region, time, etc.
  • n. (countable) a book, cataloguing the animals of a country etc.

imprisoned

  • v. simple past tense and past participle of imprison.

intent

  • n. A purpose; something that is intended.
  • n. (law) The state of someone’s mind at the time of committing an offence.
  • adj. Firmly fixed or concentrated on something.
  • adj. Engrossed.
  • adj. Unwavering from a course of action.

jailed

  • v. simple past tense and past participle of jail.

prisoner

  • n. A person incarcerated in a prison, while on trial or serving a sentence.
  • n. Any person held against their will.

unfortunate

  • adj. not favored by fortune.
  • adj. marked or accompanied by or resulting in misfortune.
  • n. An unlucky person.

unfree

  • adj. Not free; especially of a tenant who was bound to a manor.

wrapped

  • v. simple past tense and past participle of wrap.
  • adj. encased in a wrapping.
  • adj. Misspelling of rapt.

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