euphoric

[yoo-fawr-ik, -for-]

adjective

1. feeling or generating intense happiness, confidence, and a sense of well-being.

   I’ve experienced both crushing defeat and euphoric victory.

   She was euphoric when she received the Oscar.

2. Psychiatry.,  relating to or experiencing a pathologically exaggerated feeling of happiness, confidence, or energy.

   During a manic phase, people with bipolar disorder are usually euphoric and believe they can accomplish anything.

Other Word Forms

• euphorically adverb

Word History and Origins

Origin of euphoric¹

euphor(ia) + -ic

Example Sentences

“They are euphoric,” he writes in “Hostage,” a book of startling eloquence, unimaginable anguish and exceptionally restrained rage.

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Well, what about now after a 91st-minute Edinburgh derby winner sent a euphoric home crowd into a chorus of 'we shall not be moved' at a rocking Tynecastle?

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Something Just Like This, an abominable song on record, becomes a euphoric mini-rave on stage; while Fix You is simply majestic.

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Wisdom says scoring on his Liverpool debut aged 19 against Young Boys in the Europa League in 2012 was "euphoric"

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Quietly, Oliver Laxe’s euphoric, shocking movie, set at the end of the world, is winning over critics and audiences alike, a hopeful sign for challenging cinema.

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Related Words

• blissful 
• delirious 
• elated 
• enthusiastic 
• fervent 
• happy 
• joyful 
• joyous 
• mad 
• overjoyed 
• rapturous 
• rhapsodic 
• thrilled 
• upbeat