Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Marked by or expressing ecstasy.
- adjective Being in a state of ecstasy; joyful or enraptured.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Pertaining to or resulting from ecstasy; entrancing; overpowering.
- Affected by ecstasy; enraptured; entranced.
- noun One subject to ecstasies or raptures; an extravagant enthusiast.
- noun plural Ecstasy; rapturous emotion.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun rare An enthusiast.
- adjective Pertaining to, or caused by, ecstasy or excessive emotion; of the nature, or in a state, of ecstasy
- adjective Delightful beyond measure; rapturous; ravishing.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Feeling or characterized by
ecstasy . - adjective figuratively Extremely
happy . - noun in the plural
Transports of delight; words or actions performed in a state ofecstasy .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective feeling great rapture or delight
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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This ecstatically inspired communication, which I call ecstatic talk or n|om talk, shakes and tunes the mind, clearing it from distracting influences and opening a connection to spirited creative expression.
The Bushman Way of Tracking God PhD Bradford Keeney 2010
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Show this in ecstatic glimpses, as when mists upon a hill
City and Village 2010
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Leaving aside the inevitable demonising of the military, large corporations and industry, the lionising of noble savages in ecstatic pantheistic harmony with their computer game vegetation – all of which are irritating enough in their own right – the dialogue was so mind-numbingly trite, it make Titanic look like Proust.
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Ari Roth writes on the Theater J blog: But the main reason for my waxing ecstatic is the performance last night of Swiss film and stage star, Grazziella Rossi, in the duet for actress and saxophone, the monodrama SABINA SPIELREIN, running for one more night — tonight — at Theater J. Check out this amazing [...]
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Ari Roth writes on the Theater J blog: But the main reason for my waxing ecstatic is the performance last night of Swiss film and stage star, Grazziella Rossi, in the duet for actress and saxophone, the monodrama SABINA SPIELREIN, running for one more night — tonight — at Theater J. Check out this amazing [...]
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Up to 10,000 people a day have been flocking to a Florida baseball stadium to lose themselves in ecstatic music and appeal to Bentley for divine healing, which the T-shirted, bling-wearing redhead sometimes offers by kneeing the sick in the stomach or kicking them with his biker boots and shouting “Bam!”
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But the main reason for my waxing ecstatic is the performance last night of Swiss film and stage star, Grazziella Rossi, in the duet for actress and saxophone, the monodrama SABINA SPIELREIN, running for one more night — tonight — at Theater J.
Spend Tuesday night with Sabrina « The Blog at 16th and Q 2008
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Regarding Camby, Dunleavy said: ` ` I was ecstatic from the standpoint that even thought he has been out a while, he was able to come in and make some good passes and play good defensively. ''
USATODAY.com 2008
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Clearly, Olema residents tolerated inefficient daily negotiations over cash expenditures, the absence of a formal leader, and the friction caused by the nonmonogamy principle, because they judged that keeping structure to a minimum would hasten the day when the world's people would live perpetually in ecstatic communion.
Manhood in the Age of Aquarius: Masculinity in Two Countercultural Communities, 196583 2007
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The word ecstatic doesn't do justice to the way people felt that triumphant night.
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