affascinante

fascinating

adjective ahf-fah-shee-NAHN-teh Rare

Also means

charming

Usage Note

Affascinante is an invariable adjective for gender — the same form is used for masculine and feminine (un uomo affascinante, una donna affascinante). It intensifies to molto affascinante or is replaced by affascinantissimo/-a at the superlative. The verb is affascinare (to fascinate).

Examples

"Questo posto è davvero affascinante."

Natural Translation

This place is truly fascinating.

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