rhapsodic
pronunciation
How to pronounce rhapsodic in British English:
UK [ræp'sɒdɪk]
How to pronounce rhapsodic in American English:
US [ræpˈsɑdɪk]
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- Adjective:
- feeling great rapture or delight
Word Origin
- rhapsodic (adj.)
- 1782, from Greek rhapsodikos "of or for a rhapsodist," from rhapsoidia (see rhapsody). Related: Rhapsodically (c. 1600).
Example
- 1. Herzen 's friend vissarion belinsky , the literary critic , was an especially rhapsodic hegelian , unhampered by his lack of german .
- 2. The rejection of their pay claim was given a less than rhapsodic reception by the miners .
- 3. The advertising brochure sent to prospective customeers is written in a rhapsodic style .
- 4. The san francisco poet lew welch captured the dark side of the reversionary vision , in his rhapsodic manifesto final city / tap city .
- 5. What happened was that the macintosh despite rhapsodic reviews and a fanatic cult of adherents sold below apple 's expectations and in 1985 steve jobs was gone .