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Definition of Ecstatic
1. Adjective. Feeling great rapture or delight.
Similar to: Joyous
Derivative terms: Ecstasy, Ecstasy, Rapture, Rapture
Definition of Ecstatic
1. a. Pertaining to, or caused by, ecstasy or excessive emotion; of the nature, or in a state, of ecstasy; as, ecstatic gaze; ecstatic trance.
2. n. An enthusiast.
Definition of Ecstatic
1. Adjective. Feeling or characterized by ecstasy. ¹
2. Adjective. (figuratively) Extremely happy. ¹
3. Noun. (in the plural) Transports of delight; words or actions performed in a state of ecstasy. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Ecstatic
1. one that is subject to ecstasies [n -S]
Medical Definition of Ecstatic
1. Relating to or marked by ecstasy. (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ecstatic
Literary usage of Ecstatic
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Library of the World's Best Literature: Ancient and Modern by Edward Cornelius Towne (1897)
"PAUL'S ADMIRABLE EXHORTATION TO THE SUPERNATURAL AND ecstatic LIFE From < A
Treatise on the Love of God ' NOTHING can be more emphatic, nor more wonderful, ..."
2. A Treatise on Insanity and Other Disorders Affecting the Mind by James Cowles Prichard (1835)
"Of Maniacal Ecstasy or ecstatic Madness. There are two modifications of cataleptic
or ecstatic somnambulism which give rise to some remarkable phenomena. ..."
3. Miracles, Past and Present by William Mountford (1870)
"THE LAST ecstatic. AND now let the line of remark be resumed, ... The Impartial
de Soignies devotes five columns to a description of a new ecstatic named ..."
4. The Roman Empire of the Second Century: Or, The Age of Antonines by William Wolfe Capes (1897)
"To rise above these limitations, to lose the sense ol personal being, and almost
in- of ecstatic deed of consciousness, in the pulsations of a ..."
5. The Seasons by James Thomson, Patrick Murdoch, John Aikin (1811)
"The modest eye, whose beams on his alone ecstatic shine ; the little strong
embrace Of prattling children, twined around his neck, And emulous to please him ..."
6. Primitive Culture: Researches Into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy by Sir Edward Burnett Tylor (1891)
"... as a means of producing ecstatic vision ; its course from lower to higher
Culture—Drugs used to produce ecstasy—Swoons and fits induced for religious ..."
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