ecstatic
English
Alternative forms
Etymology
Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἐκστατικός (ekstatikós). Surface analysis: ecstasy + -atic.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɛkˈstætɪk/
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Adjective
ecstatic (comparative more ecstatic, superlative most ecstatic)
- Feeling or characterized by ecstasy.
- 1837, Michael Ryan, The Philosophy of Marriage, in Its Social, Moral, and Physical Relations; with an Account of the Diseases of the Genito-urinary Organs which Impair or Destroy the Reproductive Function; and Induce a Variety of Complaints; with the Physiology of Generation in the Vegetable and Animal Kingdoms [...], London: John Churchill, Princes' Street, Soho, OCLC 243495533, page 191:
- The moment of ejaculation in mammiferous animals is accompanied by universal excitement of the whole body, a kind of slight convulsion, which terminates in a comatose or exstatic state.
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- Extremely happy.
- 1960, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, chapter XIX, in Jeeves in the Offing, London: Herbert Jenkins, OCLC 1227855:
- Bobbie was dancing round the room on the tips of her toes uttering animal cries, apparently ecstatic in their nature.
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- Relating to, or caused by, ecstasy or excessive emotion.
- ecstatic gaze; ecstatic trance
- Hammond
- this ecstatic fit of love and jealousy
Translations
feeling or characterized by ecstasy
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extremely happy
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Noun
ecstatic (plural ecstatics)
- (in the plural) Transports of delight; words or actions performed in a state of ecstasy.
- 1819, Lord Byron, Don Juan, III.11:
- I think that Dante's more abstruse ecstatics / Meant to personify the Mathematics.
- 1819, Lord Byron, Don Juan, III.11:
- A person in a state of ecstasy.
- 1993, William A. Graham, Beyond the written word: oral aspects of scripture in the history of religion, Cambridge University Press:
- If there is anything that can be called protoscripture, it is surely the utterances of ecstatics, prophets and seers...
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