Meaning & use
Raptly
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In a deeply absorbed or completely attentive manner.
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The children listened raptly as the storyteller began her tale.
He watched the chess match raptly, barely blinking.
A note on using this word
Derived from 'rapt', meaning carried away by emotion or attention, from the Latin 'raptus' meaning 'seized' or 'carried off.'
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distractedlyinattentively
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