"captivant" meaning in French

See captivant in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Adjective

IPA: /kap.ti.vɑ̃/ Audio: Fr-captivant.ogg Forms: captivante [feminine], captivants [masculine, plural], captivantes [feminine, plural]
Head templates: {{fr-adj}} captivant (feminine captivante, masculine plural captivants, feminine plural captivantes)
  1. captivating; fascinating; absorbing
    Sense id: en-captivant-fr-adj-ZuJxX2TA Categories (other): French entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 4 entries, Pages with entries Disambiguation of French entries with incorrect language header: 87 13 Disambiguation of Pages with 4 entries: 100 0 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 100 0
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Categories (other): Personality Disambiguation of Personality: 0 0

Verb

IPA: /kap.ti.vɑ̃/ Audio: Fr-captivant.ogg
Head templates: {{head|fr|present participle}} captivant
  1. present participle of captiver Tags: form-of, participle, present Form of: captiver
    Sense id: en-captivant-fr-verb-dcmnzaTA
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Categories (other): Personality Disambiguation of Personality: 0 0

Inflected forms

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