ecstatic
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| —adj | |
| 1. | in a trancelike state of great rapture or delight |
| 2. | showing or feeling great enthusiasm: ecstatic applause |
| —n | |
| 3. | a person who has periods of intense trancelike joy |
| ec'statically | |
| —adv | |
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Word Origin & History
ecstatic
1620s, "mystically absorbed, stupefied," from Gk. ekstatikos, from eksta- (see ecstatic). Meaning "characterized by intense emotions" is from 1660s, now usually pleasurable ones, but not originally always so. Related: Ecstatically.
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Example sentences
The school board was happy, the community was proud, and the students were ecstatic.
On the other hand, it is a kiss capable of betrayal or deception and of bringing the speaker to an ecstatic brink of annihilation.
The ecstatic feelings music gave me were never going to make their way onto a piece of paper.
By the afternoon the ecstatic photographer was aboard a tugboat headed to the scene.
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