ecstatic
pronunciation
How to pronounce ecstatic in British English:
UK [ɪkˈstætɪk]
How to pronounce ecstatic in American English:
US [ɛkˈstætɪk]
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- Adjective:
- feeling great rapture or delight
Word Origin
- ecstatic (adj.)
- 1590s, "mystically absorbed," from Greek ekstatikos "unstable, inclined to depart from," from ekstasis (see ecstasy). Meaning "characterized by or subject to intense emotions" is from 1660s, now usually pleasurable ones, but not originally always so. Related: Ecstatical; ecstatically.
Example
- 1. That we can sometimes fly and sometimes enjoy ecstatic happiness in our dreams is in itself comforting .
- 2. It can be an ecstatic encounter ; an unsentimental contract ; or an illusion , best treated with scepticism .
- 3. While mr obama was telling his ecstatic supporters that " this is the moment " did he even promise to lower the oceans ?
- 4. Was she ecstatic when it was completed ?
- 5. His ecstatic declamation of the sonorous rhythm was enough for me .