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/ ɛkˈstæt ɪk / PHONETIC RESPELLING
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adjective of, relating to, or characterized by ecstasy or a state of sudden, intense, overpowering emotion: an ecstatic frenzy; ecstatic cheering for the winning team.
subject to or in a state of ecstasy; full of joy; rapturous: They are absolutely ecstatic about their new baby.
noun a person subject to fits of ecstasy: The author, a known ecstatic, could write only in fits of rage or glee.
Origin of ecstatic 1620–30; (<Middle French extatique ) <Medieval Latin ecstaticus <Greek ekstatikós, equivalent to ek- ec- + statikós static. See ecstasy
OTHER WORDS FROM ecstatic ec·stat·i·cal·ly, adverb non·ec·stat·ic, adjective non·ec·stat·i·cal·ly, adverb un·ec·stat·ic, adjective
un·ec·stat·i·cal·ly, adverb
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Words nearby ecstatic e-CRM, ecru, ECS, ECSC, ecstasy, ecstatic , ecstatics, ECT, ectad, ectal, ectasia
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Example sentences from the Web for ecstatic They were ecstatic , but there is still this sense of, “What does he do again?”
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Face-painted, ecstatic crowds crammed in arenas across the country.
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Salinger was ecstatic , believing, as Slawenski puts it, that "he had finally won the recognition he so frantically craved."
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But the time for ecstatic pathos had altogether passed away before he rode in at that portal.
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It was an ecstatic experience, a fairy pageant, a supernal revelation of an enchanted landscape.
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And yet she could be ecstatic in the arms of that perfect ass!
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But they were suddenly drawn from their ecstatic state by a change about them.
Nature stood on tiptoe, ready for carnival, waiting for the opening measures of the ecstatic music of life's renewal.
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British Dictionary definitions for ecstatic adjective in a trancelike state of great rapture or delight
showing or feeling great enthusiasm ecstatic applause
noun a person who has periods of intense trancelike joy
Derived forms of ecstatic ecstatically , adverb Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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