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Meanings of rhapsodic in English

Feeling great rapture or delight.

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        Examples for "ecstatic"
        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, ...
        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
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        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...
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        With the exception of madame, everybody was enraptured with the royal munificence.
        Prince Eugene and His Times
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        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
        Usage of rhapsodic in English
        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
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        And Stanley thought, for he was not rhapsodic 'Wonderful pretty country!
        The Freelands
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        Mrs Beeton, is quite rhapsodic about the woodcock in particular.
        The Irish Times
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        His filming of nature is as rhapsodic as it is in the new film.
        The new yorker
        7
        In other words, the lymphatic temperament is essentially despondent, and the rhapsodic is bilious.
        Father Goriot
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        The bratwurst came, along with a coffee that was consumed lovingly, with rhapsodic delight.
        The Beast Within
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        Oz Clarke was rhapsodic when Terroirs supplied it for his book launch last October.
        The Irish Times
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        He wrote with all the rhapsodic passion of a god creating a new world.
        Stories from Everybody's Magazine
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        Panoptic and quietly rhapsodic, it seemed to announce his intentions in its very title.
        The Irish Times
        12
        But there come the moods of musing and rhapsodic rapture.
        Symphonies and Their Meaning; Third Series, Modern Symphonies
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        It is not a sensual gaze, but a rhapsodic apprehension of the power of love.
        The Guardian
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        The music is rhapsodic and Glazunov's talent for melody and lyricism pervades the entire work.
        Radio NZ
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        The day Japan ordered schools closed for weeks, the account tweeted rhapsodic praises of spring flowers.
        Reuters
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        He was rhapsodic and he was serious, too.
        Over the Pass
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        Rhapsodic through the time