ecstatic

/eks'tætik/

Thân thiện

She was ecstatic when she saw the surprise birthday party.

Definition

Adjective: 1. Feeling or expressing overwhelming happiness or joyful excitement: Describes a state of intense, often rapturous delight or pleasure. 2. In a state of ecstasy: Characterized by or subject to a trance-like state of overwhelming emotion, often joy or religious fervor.

Usage

• Used to describe a person's emotional state when experiencing extreme joy or delight.
• Can describe reactions, expressions, or experiences characterized by such intense feeling.
• Often implies a temporary, peak emotional state rather than a general disposition.

Examples

• The fans were ecstatic when their team won the championship.
• She gave an ecstatic performance, filled with passion and energy.
• He was ecstatic about the news of his promotion.
• Their ecstatic cheers could be heard from miles away.

Advanced Usage

• Ecstatic union: A mystical or spiritual concept of blissful oneness with the divine.
  • The poem describes the soul's search for ecstatic union with God.
• Ecstatic state: A psychological or physiological condition of trance or rapture.
  • The shaman entered an ecstatic state during the ritual.

Variants and Related Words

• Ecstatically (adverb): In an ecstatic manner.
  • She smiled ecstatically upon hearing the good news.
• Ecstasy (noun): An overwhelming feeling of great happiness or joyful excitement; also, a trance-like state.
  • The music filled her with a sense of pure ecstasy.

Synonyms

• Elated: Very happy and excited, in high spirits.
• Euphoric: Characterized by or feeling intense excitement and happiness.
• Rapturous: Filled with or characterized by a feeling of intense pleasure or joy.
• Overjoyed: Extremely happy.

Antonyms

• Miserable: Very unhappy or uncomfortable.
• Despondent: In low spirits from loss of hope or courage.
• Depressed: In a state of general unhappiness or despondency.

Idioms and Phrases

• To be in ecstasies over something: To be extremely delighted by something.
  • She was in ecstasies over the beautiful wedding dress.
• Ecstatic about: Very excited and happy about a particular thing.
  • He's absolutely ecstatic about his new job.

Học thuật

Adjective

1. feeling great rapture or delight

Từ đồng nghĩa

• enraptured
• rapturous
• rapt
• rhapsodic