ecstatic
of, relating to, or characterized byecstasy or a state of sudden, intense, overpowering emotion: an ecstatic frenzy;ecstatic cheering for the winning team.
subject to or in a state of ecstasy; full of joy; rapturous: They are absolutely ecstatic about their new baby.
a person subject to fits of ecstasy: The author, a known ecstatic, could write only in fits of rage or glee.
Origin of ecstatic
1Other words from ecstatic
- ec·stat·i·cal·ly, adverb
- non·ec·stat·ic, adjective
- non·ec·stat·i·cal·ly, adverb
- un·ec·stat·ic, adjective
- un·ec·stat·i·cal·ly, adverb
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How to use ecstatic in a sentence
A few years later, they would team up to create the world’s foremost hip-hop duo with Watch the Throne, touring to ecstatic fans all over the world.
Everything We Know About Kanye West's Donda Following Second Listening Event | Cady Lang | August 6, 2021 | TimeWhich is that there’s a lot of us who would be ecstatic if bioinformatics could … lead to proving a crime straight out of a Michael Crichton novel.
They called it a conspiracy theory. But Alina Chan tweeted life into the idea that the virus came from a lab. | Antonio Regalado | June 25, 2021 | MIT Technology ReviewBoys you hadn’t seen in months, over a year really, were ecstatic to see each other.
Opinion | Speedos and hoodies: Rehoboth Memorial Day recap | Brock Thompson | June 3, 2021 | Washington BladeIn 2018, he posted a video of his ecstatic, jumping up-and-down students opening up their reading group “acceptance” letters that resembled college acceptance letters.
Fourteen-year-old Neha Dashrath was ecstatic when the pizza arrived.
Slum dwellers in India get unique digital addresses | Shoma Abhyankar | April 28, 2021 | MIT Technology Review
They were ecstatic, but there is still this sense of, “What does he do again?”
Richard Blanco’s Gay Latino Poet Survival Kit | William O’Connor | October 8, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTTo say that James Gunn is ecstatic is a vast understatement.
‘Guardians of the Galaxy’ Filmmaker James Gunn on His Glorious Space Opera and Rise to the A-List | Marlow Stern | August 3, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTAnd it has spurred a near-ecstatic state among the faithful.
Face-painted, ecstatic crowds crammed in arenas across the country.
The daft, ecstatic EDM stomper “A Sky Full of Stars,” meanwhile, seemed destined for club ubiquity.
Why Is It Cool to Hate Coldplay? A First Listen of New Album ‘Ghost Stories’ | Andrew Romano | March 26, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTAt last she had fallen asleep and dreamed ecstatic dreams about diamond necklaces and thousand franc notes.
Rosemary in Search of a Father | C. N. WilliamsonThere is no question as to the ecstatic, nay frenzied state many of them attained.
Fifty Years of Railway Life in England, Scotland and Ireland | Joseph TatlowScientists on the moon—being as singleminded as scientists anywhere—became ecstatic.
Old Friends Are the Best | Jack SharkeyHe discovers that no amount of austerities will extinguish desire, or produce ecstatic contemplation.
Beacon Lights of History, Volume I | John LordHis return in the spring still filled him with ecstatic joy for a short time.
Frederick Chopin as a Man and Musician | Frederick Niecks
British Dictionary definitions for ecstatic
/ (ɛkˈstætɪk) /
in a trancelike state of great rapture or delight
showing or feeling great enthusiasm: ecstatic applause
a person who has periods of intense trancelike joy
Derived forms of ecstatic
- ecstatically, adverb
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