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Meanings of ecstatic in English

Feeling great rapture or delight.

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Having feelings of intense pleasure.

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Examples for "rapt"
Examples for "rapt"
1
She held the bundle up and looked at it in rapt contemplation.
Stubble
2
The gorgeous being entered, and found three demure ladies rapt in newspapers.
Aunt Jo's Scrap Bag, Volume 2 / Shawl-Straps
3
Zelandoni was a powerful speaker, and Ayla was listening with rapt attention.
The Shelters of Stone
4
Note, further, the soul rapt in meditation and this vision of God.
Expositions of Holy Scripture: Isaiah and Jeremiah
5
They also fill the soul of the rapt beholder with adoring wonder.
Among the Forces
1
Despite the team's disappointment, they received a rapturous welcome home last night.
The Irish Times
2
He grasped it in his own and covered it with rapturous kisses.
Prince Eugene and His Times
3
One rapturous blogger called her 'the Everlasting Progressive, the Princess of News'.
The Guardian
4
Benedict's predecessor John Paul always met rapturous crowds in his Catholic Poland.
Reuters
5
The great poet musicians can breathe out their inspirations in rapturous melodies.
Life in a Thousand Worlds
1
The Woggle-Bug goes to the party and is enraptured by the dress.
The Woggle-Bug Book
2
At once all eyes were turned towards him; we were all enraptured.
In the Field (1914-1915): The Impressions of an Officer of Light...
3
With the exception of madame, everybody was enraptured with the royal munificence.
Prince Eugene and His Times
4
But Oppenheimer, enraptured with my tales, remained a sceptic to the end.
The Jacket (The Star-Rover)
5
He'd been looking around him as though enraptured by what he saw.
Empty mile
1
Bergman films the young lover's on the run with rhapsodic, highly inflected images.
The new yorker
2
The cello part provides a rhapsodic strand against the insistently rhythmic choral writing.
Radio NZ
3
I begged him to rise, and be a little less rhapsodic.
The Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay — Volume 2
4
And Stanley thought, for he was not rhapsodic 'Wonderful pretty country!
The Freelands
5
Mrs Beeton, is quite rhapsodic about the woodcock in particular.
The Irish Times
Usage of ecstatic in English
1
Manager's reaction: Delighted with the points, far from ecstatic about the performance.
The Irish Times
2
Families of the missing group were ecstatic at news of the rescue.
Radio NZ
3
Families of the missing group were ecstatic at news of their discovery.
Radio NZ
4
In the South it was hailed with ecstatic delight, especially in Charleston.
The Life of Abraham Lincoln
5
Then and only then shall we achieve an ecstatic union with God.
A history of god: the 4000-year quest of judaism, christianity, ...
6
The exaltation of the ecstatic devotees continued till the day he left.
Elizabethan Sea-Dogs: A Chronicle of Drake and His Companions
7
Indeed there is something grand in the ecstatic craze of these people.
The Emperor — Volume 10
8
Sonia had the air of one steeped in an almost ecstatic content.
The Pawns Count
9
And I waited and lived on in a sort of ecstatic dream.
The Phantom of the Opera
10
Dunedin North MP David Clark was among them - and was ecstatic.
Radio NZ
11
I am ecstatic to see where my hard work will take me.
Ebony
12
The press thought he was being erratic, he knew he was ecstatic.
The Guardian
13
Williams was ecstatic with the news, dancing and laughing throughout the party.
Ebony
14
Fans both here and in South Africa were ecstatic about the victory.
Radio NZ
15
She paused suddenly in her recital and gave a little ecstatic cry.
Stubble
16
This provoked the neo-Platonists into craving for ecstatic union with the supernatural.
Without Prejudice
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