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Definition: Rapturous |
RapturousAdjective1. Feeling great rapture or delight. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "rapturous" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
Synonyms: RapturousSynonyms: ecstatic (adj), enraptured (adj), rhapsodic (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Feeling | Impressive, deep, profound, indelible; deep felt, home felt, heartfelt; swelling, soul-stirring, deep-mouthed, heart-expanding, electric, thrilling, rapturous, ecstatic. |
Love | Affectionate, tender, sweet upon, sympathetic, loving; amorous, amatory; fond, erotic, uxorious, ardent, passionate, rapturous, devoted, motherly. |
Pain | Charming; delightful, felicitous, exquisite; lovely; (beautiful); ravishing, rapturous; heartfelt, thrilling, ecstatic; beatic; beatific; seraphic; empyrean; elysian; (heavenly). |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Rapturous |
| English words defined with "rapturous": adored ♦ idolised, idolized ♦ worshipped. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "rapturous": Bring Down the House ♦ Kentish Fire ♦ man. (references) |
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 | Uninhibited; laughing; hysterical; beside oneself; carried away; corybantic; crazy; delighted; drunk; ecstatic; enthused; frenetic; frenzied; happy; intoxicated; mad; overexcited; overwrought; rabid; rapturous; thrilled; transported; wild. |
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Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | MAN, n. An animal so lost in rapturous contemplation of what he thinks he is as to overlook what he indubitably ought to be. His chief occupation is extermination of other animals and his own species, which, however, multiplies with such insistent rapidity as to infest the whole habitable earh and Canada. When the world was young and Man was new, And everything was pleasant, Distinctions Nature never drew 'Mongst kings and priest and peasant. We're not that way at present, Save here in this Republic, where We have that old regime, For all are kings, however bare Their backs, howe'er extreme Their hunger. And, indeed, each has a voice To accept the tyrant of his party's choice. A citizen who would not vote, And, therefore, was detested, Was one day with a tarry coat (With feathers backed and breasted) By patriots invested. "It is your duty," cried the crowd, "Your ballot true to cast For the man o' your choice." He humbly bowed, And explained his wicked past: "That's what I very gladly would have done, Dear patriots, but he has never run." Apperton Duke |
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| "Rapturous" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Rapturous" is used about 88 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 88 | 35,154 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
rapturous | 2 |
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| Language | Translations for "rapturous"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | i ngazëllyer (elate, elated, jubilant), i dalldisur (ecstatic, foolhardy, rash, reckless). (various references) | |
Arabic | منتش (rapt), هائج (agitated, bad tempered, berserk, boiled, eruptive, fermentable, mad, nervy, phrenic, rambunctious, rampant, restive, restless, riotous, rough, rousing, stormy, tempestuous, tumultuous, turbulent, uproarious), جذل (be glad, cheerful, exuberant, exult, exultant, exultation, glad, happy, hilarious, jubilation, rapt, rapture). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | възхитен, възторжен (ecstatic, enthusiastic, hearty, rhapsodic, rousing, whole-hearted), в екстаз, будещ възторг. (various references) | |
Chinese | "魂. (various references) | |
Czech | nadšený (dedicated, enthusiastic, glowing, great, keen, passionate, rousing, thrilled, wholehearted, zealous, zestful), extatický (ecstatic), úchvatný (awe inspiring, awesome, enthralling, fascinating, ravishing). (various references) | |
Farsi | هیجان انگیز, دارای شوروشعف . (various references) | |
French | joyeux, frénétique, enthousiaste (rapt, raring), de ravissement. (various references) | |
German | hingerissen (ecstatic, enchanted, enraptured, panicked, ravished), entzückt (delighted, delightedly, delightful, enraptures, rapt, raptly, ravishes, thrilled, to be in raptures (about). (various references) | |
Greek | προξενών έκστασιν, εκστατικόσ (ecstatic, rapt, ravishing, stunned). (various references) | |
Hebrew | משול"ב (ecstatic, excited, glowing, perfervid). (various references) | |
Hungarian | elragadtatott (ecstatic, enraptured, overjoyed, raptured), lelkes (ardent, eager, ebullient, effervescent, enthusiastic, expansive, impassioned, keen, raptured, soulful, zealous), elbűvölt (enchanted, raptured, spellbound). (various references) | |
Indonesian | menggiurkan (bewitch, entrance, ravish, whet). (various references) | |
Italian | frenetico (berserk, fantastic, frantic, frenzied, raving mad), estatico (ecstatic). (various references) | |
Korean | 미친"이 기뻐하". (various references) | |
Manx | eunyssagh (delicious, delightful, enchanting, pleasure-seeker), ard-eunyssagh (ecstatic). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | apturousray.(various references) | |
Portuguese | extasiado (rapt), estático (static), entusiástico (enthusiastic, keen), arrebatador (catchy, enchanting, enthralling, entrancing, fairy, impetuous, magic, magical, orphic, ravishing, ripping, thrilling, vibrant), arrebatado (desperate, furious, harum-scarum, heady, impetuous, passionate, rapt, rash, rumbustious, stormy, towering, warm). (various references) | |
Romanian | rãpitor (charming, grasping, predacious, predatory, rapacious, ravishing), încântãtor (alluring, charming, delightful, entrancing, glamorous, glamourous, ravishing). (various references) | |
Russian | восторженный (ecstatic, enthusiastic, rapt, rhapsodic). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | zanesen (delirious, enthralled), ushićen (bubbly, delighted, ecstatic, elate, elated, jubilant, overjoyed, rapt, thrilled). (various references) | |
Spanish | extático (ecstatic, rapt), encantado (bewitched, charmed, darling, delighted, enraptures, haunted, incanted, ravishes), delirante (delirious, frenzied, light-headed, raving), arrebatado (hasty, rapt, rash, taken). (various references) | |
Swedish | hänryckt (ecstatic). (various references) | |
Turkish | mest olmuş (ecstatic, enrapt, entranced, rapt), mest eden (enchanting, entrancing, ravishing), kendinden geçmiş (beside oneself, distracted, distraught, ecstatic, enrapt, entranced, gone, intoxicated, rapt, senseless, slaphappy, unconscious), coşkulu (cock-a-hoop, declamatory, dithyrambic, effusive, enthusiastic, excited, exhilarated, glowing, gut, in a glow, stirring, sweeping, transported with joy, vehement). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | захоплений (absorbed, admiring, boffo, busy in, captive, captured, delighted, enthusiastic, enthusiastical, infatuated, obsessed, rapt), екзальтований (exalted, rhapsodic). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | thái mê ly chăm chú, sung sướng vô ngần (rapt, wrapt), say mê cu"ng nhiệt, nhiệt liệt. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "rapturous": rapturously, rapturousness, rapturousnesses. (additional references) | |
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"Rapturous" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: raptuous. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "rapturous" (pronounced ra"pkherus) |
| 4 | -kh er u s | adventurous, lecherous, treacherous. |
| 3 | -er u s | adulterous, amorous, avarice, barbarous, boisterous, cancerous, cantankerous, carboniferous, carnivorous, coniferous, dangerous, decorous, fossiliferous, generous, glamorous, herbivorous, heterosporous, homosporous, humerus, humorous, insectivorous, murderous, numerous, odorous, omnivorous, onerous, overgenerous, oviparous, ovoviviparous, phosphorous, phosphorus, ponderous, precancerous, preposterous, prosperous, rancorous, rhinoceros, rigorous, slanderous, sonorous, tetramerous, thunderous, timorous, traitorous, unglamorous, uterus, vigorous, viviparous, vociferous. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-o-p-r-r-s-t-u-u" | |
-2 letters: parrots, raptors, uproars. | |
-3 letters: aurous, parous, parrot, pastor, raptor, rostra, sapour, sartor, sprout, stupor, uproar, upsoar. | |
-4 letters: aport, autos, parrs, parts, ports, pours, pouts, praos, prats, praus, proas, prost, pruta, purrs, ratos, roars, roast, rotas, roups, roust, routs, sapor, sport, spout, sprat, spurt, sputa, stoup, stour, strap, strop, stupa, supra, surra, sutra, taros. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-o-p-r-r-s-t-u-u" | |
+2 letters: rapturously. | |
+4 letters: rapturousness. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Sounds 6. Quotations: Non-fiction 7. Usage Frequency 8. Expressions: Internet | 9. Translations: Modern 10. Derivations 11. Rhymes 12. Anagrams | 13. Bibliography |
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