riveting
Impossible to ignore
Riveting means completely absorbing attention, so compelling you can't look away: a riveting performance, The documentary was riveting from start to finish.
The metaphor comes from rivets—metal fasteners that hold things firmly in place.
Something riveting holds you just as fast.
The word often describes narratives, performances, or testimony that grip an audience.
Completely holding one's attention
- grippingHolding attention completely
- absorbingHolding attention completely
- enthrallingDeeply fascinating and gripping
- mesmerizingCompletely capturing one's attention
compelling · spellbinding · fascinating · transfixing · arresting · hypnotic · immersive · engaging
Joining two parts together
- joiningLinking into one
- metalHard conductive solid
- pneumaticUsing pressurized gas
- aircraftAirborne transportation vehicle
structural · sheet metal · flush · countersunk · solid · tubular · mandrel · hole punch
engrossing
Completely holding one's attention
- grippingHolding attention completely
- absorbingHolding attention completely
- enthrallingDeeply fascinating and gripping
mesmerizing · compelling · spellbinding · fascinating · transfixing · arresting · hypnotic · immersive · engaging · unputdownable
fastening
Joining two parts together
aircraft · structural · sheet metal · flush · countersunk · solid · tubular · mandrel · hole punch · aluminum
- attentionattention, focus, focused, attentiveness, focused attention
- rivetingpan head
- adjectivesbig, urgent, amazing, temporary, bold
- engineeringengineers, civil engineering, engineering, electrical engineering, blueprint
- captivatingcaptivating, fascinating, compelling, mesmerizing, hypnotic
- factory workfactory worker, assembly, assembly line, welding, assembly worker
rivetingboring
Failing to engage interest
dull · uninteresting · tedious · monotonous · mind-numbing