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Meanings of rapt in English
Synonyms
Examples for "ecstatic"
Examples for "ecstatic"
1
Manager's reaction: Delighted with the points, far from ecstatic about the performance.
2
Families of the missing group were ecstatic at news of the rescue.
3
Families of the missing group were ecstatic at news of their discovery.
4
In the South it was hailed with ecstatic delight, especially in Charleston.
5
Then and only then shall we achieve an ecstatic union with God.
1
Despite the team's disappointment, they received a rapturous welcome home last night.
2
He grasped it in his own and covered it with rapturous kisses.
3
One rapturous blogger called her 'the Everlasting Progressive, the Princess of News'.
4
Benedict's predecessor John Paul always met rapturous crowds in his Catholic Poland.
5
The great poet musicians can breathe out their inspirations in rapturous melodies.
1
The Woggle-Bug goes to the party and is enraptured by the dress.
2
At once all eyes were turned towards him; we were all enraptured.
3
With the exception of madame, everybody was enraptured with the royal munificence.
4
But Oppenheimer, enraptured with my tales, remained a sceptic to the end.
5
He'd been looking around him as though enraptured by what he saw.
1
Bergman films the young lover's on the run with rhapsodic, highly inflected images.
2
The cello part provides a rhapsodic strand against the insistently rhythmic choral writing.
3
I begged him to rise, and be a little less rhapsodic.
4
And Stanley thought, for he was not rhapsodic 'Wonderful pretty country!
5
Mrs Beeton, is quite rhapsodic about the woodcock in particular.
Usage of rapt in English
1
She held the bundle up and looked at it in rapt contemplation.
2
The gorgeous being entered, and found three demure ladies rapt in newspapers.
3
Zelandoni was a powerful speaker, and Ayla was listening with rapt attention.
4
Note, further, the soul rapt in meditation and this vision of God.
5
They also fill the soul of the rapt beholder with adoring wonder.
6
He walked along the street for a long while, rapt in thought.
7
At breakfast that morning he was silent and apparently rapt in thought.
8
Emma Smith remained standing; upon her face was a rapt triumphant expression.
9
Grace leaned forward, rapt, but Faith sat still, her expression carefully blank.
10
His audience of crowding Indians gazed in solemn rapt awe upon him.
11
If it is, they respond with gales of laughter or rapt attention.
12
The crowd stirred, looked up and paid him the most rapt attention.
13
On his right, Frau Brohl, in rustling silk, sat in rapt silence.
14
The King moved to the edge of his chair in rapt attention.
15
It was played with rapt concentration and proved to be most attractive.
16
But I had a rapt audience of two in James and Dorothy.
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Rapt across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
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