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Rapturous definitions

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

RAP'TUROUS, a. Ecstatic; transporting; ravishing; as rapturous joy, pleasure or delight.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

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

Merriam Webster's

adjective see rapture I

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Rapturous Rap"tur*ous, a. Ecstatic; transporting; ravishing; feeling, expressing, or manifesting rapture; as, rapturous joy, pleasure, or delight; rapturous applause.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

A rapturous feeling or reaction is one of extreme happiness or enthusiasm. (JOURNALISM) The students gave him a rapturous welcome... ADJ: usu ADJ n

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

a. Ecstatic, ravishing, transporting.

Moby Thesaurus

bursting with happiness, carried away, delighted, ecstatic, elate, elated, enchanted, enraptured, enravished, entranced, euphoric, exalted, exultant, flushed, freaked out, high, imparadised, in ecstasies, in heaven, in paradise, in raptures, in seventh heaven, joyful, joyous, jubilant, on cloud nine, overjoyed, overjoyful, possessed, rapt, raptured, ravished, rhapsodic, sent, thrilled, transported