Meaning & use

Transportive

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Having the power to emotionally carry someone away to another place, time, or state of mind.

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The film's transportive soundtrack made the theater feel like another world.

Her novel offers a transportive escape into 19th-century Paris.

A note on using this word

Frequently used in reviews of music, film, and fiction to praise a work's power to fully immerse an audience.

Words with a similar meaning

transportingenchanting

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