Usually means: Held against will; not free.
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We found 32 dictionaries that define the word captive:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. captive: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. captive: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. captive: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. captive: Collins English Dictionary
  5. captive: Vocabulary.com
  6. Captive, captive: Wordnik
  7. captive: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. captive: Wiktionary
  9. captive: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. captive: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. captive: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Captive, captive: Dictionary.com
  13. captive (n.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. captive: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Captive (Fear the Walking Dead), Captive (game), Captive (soundtrack), Captive (video game), Captive, The Captive (painting), The Captive (play): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Captive: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. captive: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. captive: Rhymezone
  19. captive: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. captive: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. captive: Free Dictionary
  22. captive: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. captive: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  2. Captive (game), captive: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. captive: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Captive (game), captive: Medical dictionary

Religion (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Captive: Easton Bible
  2. Captive: Smith's Bible Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  One who has been captured or is otherwise confined.
noun:  One held prisoner.
noun:  (figurative) One charmed or subdued by beauty, excellence, or affection; one who is captivated.
noun:  A captive insurance company, a subsidiary of a company used as its internal insurer.
adjective:  Held prisoner; not free; confined.
adjective:  Subdued by love; charmed; captivated.
adjective:  Of or relating to bondage or confinement; serving to confine.
verb:  (transitive, archaic) To capture; to take captive.

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