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

When things aren’t clicking, it’s torture, he said, but “when it’s good, it’s f— euphoric.”

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The L.A. cast has sent a celebratory video to the British cast commemorating the monumental milestone, and the mood behind the scenes before curtain is euphoric.

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“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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Related Words

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