Rapt RAPT, pp. [from rap.] Transported; ravished.
RAPT, v.t. To transport or ravish. [Not legitimate or in use.]
RAPT, n.
1. An ecstasy; a trance.
2. Rapidity. [Not in use.]

rapt adj 1: feeling great rapture or delight [syn: ecstatic, enraptured, rapturous, rapt, rhapsodic]

rapt adjective Etymology: Middle English, from Latin raptus, past participle of rapere to seize — more at rapid Date: 14th century 1. lifted up and carried away 2. transported with emotion ; enraptured 3. wholly absorbed ; engrossed • raptly adverb • raptness noun

rapt
adj.
1 fully absorbed or intent, enraptured (listen with rapt attention).
2 carried away with feeling or lofty thought.
3 carried away bodily.
Derivatives:
raptly adv. raptness n.
Etymology: ME f. L raptus past part. of rapere seize

rapt If someone watches or listens with rapt attention, they are extremely interested or fascinated. (LITERARY) I noticed that everyone was watching me with rapt attention... ADJ: usu ADJ n • raptly ...listening raptly to stories about fascinating people. ADV: ADV with v

rapt ræpt adj. 1 fully absorbed or intent, enraptured (listen with rapt attention). 2 carried away with feeling or lofty thought. 3 carried away bodily. øøraptly adv. raptness n. [ME f. L raptus past part. of rapere seize]

Rap \Rap\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Rapped, usually written Rapt; p. pr. & vb. n. Rapping.] [OE. rapen; akin to LG. & D. rapen to snatch, G. raffen, Sw. rappa; cf. Dan. rappe sig to make haste, and Icel. hrapa to fall, to rush, hurry. The word has been confused with L. rapere to seize. Cf. Rape robbery, Rapture, Raff, v., Ramp, v.] 1. To snatch away; to seize and hurry off. And through the Greeks and Ilians they rapt The whirring chariot. --Chapman. From Oxford I was rapt by my nephew, Sir Edmund Bacon, to Redgrove. --Sir H. Wotton. 2. To hasten. [Obs.] --Piers Plowman. 3. To seize and bear away, as the mind or thoughts; to transport out of one's self; to affect with ecstasy or rapture; as, rapt into admiration. I'm rapt with joy to see my Marcia's tears. --Addison. Rapt into future times, the bard begun. --Pope. 4. To exchange; to truck. [Obs. & Law] To rap and ren, To rap and rend. [Perhaps fr. Icel. hrapa to hurry and r[ae]na plunder, fr. r[=a]n plunder, E. ran.] To seize and plunder; to snatch by violence. --Dryden. ``[Ye] waste all that ye may rape and renne.'' --Chaucer. All they could rap and rend pilfer. --Hudibras. To rap out, to utter with sudden violence, as an oath. A judge who rapped out a great oath. --Addison.

Rapt \Rapt\ (r[a^]pt), imp. & p. p. of Rap, to snatch away.

Rapt \Rapt\, a. 1. Snatched away; hurried away or along. Waters rapt with whirling away. --Spenser. 2. Transported with love, admiration, delight, etc.; enraptured. ``The rapt musician.'' --Longfellow. 3. Wholly absorbed or engrossed, as in work or meditation. ``Rapt in secret studies.'' --Shak.

Rapt \Rapt\, n. [From F. rapt abduction, rape, L. raptus, fr. rapere to seize and carry off, to transport; or fr. E. rapt, a. See Rapt, a., and Rapid.] 1. An ecstasy; a trance. [Obs.] --Bp. Morton. 2. Rapidity. [Obs.] --Sir T. Browne.

Rapt \Rapt\, v. i. 1. To transport or ravish. [Obs.] --Drayton. 2. To carry away by force. [Obs.] --Daniel.

rapt a. Enraptured, transported, ravished, entranced, charmed, delighted, enchanted, fascinated, spell-bound, inspired.

rapt ræpt adj. 1 entranced, fascinated, spellbound, mesmerized, hypnotized, engrossed, enthralled, bewitched, absorbed, transported, captivated, delighted: She gave her last performance of 'Giselle' before a rapt audience. 2 enraptured, rapturous, delighted, elated, happy, ecstatic, blissful, overjoyed, joyous, joyful, beatific: You should have seen the rapt expression on the child's face when Santa Claus appeared.

161 Moby Thesaurus words for "rapt": absent, absentminded, absorbed, abstracted, arrested, assiduous, beatific, bemused, bewitched, blissful, buried in thought, bursting with happiness, captivated, carried away, castle-building, caught, charmed, constant, continuing, daydreaming, daydreamy, deep, delighted, diligent, dogged, dreaming, dreamy, drowsing, ecstatic, elate, elated, elsewhere, enchanted, enduring, engaged, engaged in thought, engrossed, engrossed in thought, enraptured, enravished, enthralled, entranced, exalted, exultant, faithful, faraway, fascinated, fixed, flushed, freaked out, gripped, half-awake, happy, held, high, hypnotized, immersed, immersed in thought, immutable, imparadised, in a reverie, in ecstasies, in heaven, in paradise, in raptures, in seventh heaven, in the clouds, inalterable, indefatigable, indomitable, industrious, insistent, introspective, invincible, joyful, joyous, jubilant, lasting, lost, lost in thought, loyal, meditative, mesmerized, mooning, moonraking, museful, musing, napping, never-tiring, nodding, oblivious, obstinate, occupied, on cloud nine, overjoyed, overjoyful, patient, patient as Job, pensive, permanent, perseverant, persevering, persistent, persisting, pertinacious, pipe-dreaming, plodding, plugging, possessed, preoccupied, raptured, rapturous, ravished, relentless, resolute, rhapsodic, sedulous, sent, single-minded, sleepless, slogging, somewhere else, spellbound, stable, stargazing, steadfast, steady, stubborn, taken up, tenacious, tireless, transported, unabating, unconquerable, unconscious, undaunted, undiscouraged, undrooping, unfailing, unfaltering, unflagging, unflinching, unintermitting, uninterrupted, unnodding, unrelaxing, unrelenting, unremitting, unsleeping, unswerving, untiring, unwavering, unwearied, unwearying, unwinking, utterly attentive, weariless, woolgathering, wrapped, wrapped in thought, wrapped up

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