Rhapsodic

Definition: Rhapsodic

Rhapsodic

Adjective

1. Feeling great rapture or delight.

Date "rhapsodic" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1899. (references)

Synonyms: Rhapsodic

Synonyms: ecstatic (adj), enraptured (adj), rapturous (adj). (additional references)

Domain	Title
Music	Bridge: Cello Sonata; Delius: Cello Sonata; Bax: Rhapsodic Ballad... (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

"Rhapsodic" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Rhapsodic" is used about 7 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%	7	133,076

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.

Language		Translations for "rhapsodic"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		rapsodik. (various references)

Arabic		‏عاطفي (affectional, emotional, emotive, intimate, mawkish, moving, overwhelming, passional, passionate, romantic, sentimental, sentimentalist, smoochy, sob, soft, soulful). (various references)

Bulgarian		възторжен (ecstatic, enthusiastic, hearty, rapturous, rousing, whole-hearted), несвързан (confused, delirious, desultory, disconnected, discontinuous, discrete, disjointed, incoherent, inconsequent, irrelative, loose, rambling, scrappy, unconnected, unrelated). (various references)

French		rhapsodique, élogieux. (various references)

German		rhapsodisch (rhapsodical). (various references)

Greek		ραψωδικόσ. (various references)

Hebrew		רפסודי, נלהב ביותר. (various references)

Hungarian		rapszodikus (fitful, rhapsodical), túláradó (ebullient, effusive, exuberant, flush, lavish, luxuriant, overflowing, profuse, redundant). (various references)

Pig Latin		apsodicrhay

Russian		восторженный (ecstatic, enthusiastic, rapt, rapturous). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		raspoložen (cheerful, exhilarated, gamesome, good humoured, good-humored, lighthearted), rapsodičan. (various references)

Spanish		rapsódico. (various references)

Swedish		rapsodisk (rhapsodical), extatisk (ecstatic, rapturous). (various references)

Thai		ที่เต็มไปด้วยความดีใจอย่างเหลือล้น (ภาษาหรืออารมณ์) (rhapsodical). (various references)

Turkish		rapsodiye benzer (rhapsodical), rapsodi (rhapsodical, rhapsody), heyecanlı (agitated, aglow, agog, astir, crazed, declamatory, dramatic, emotional, excitable, excited, exciting, febrile, feverish, glowing, gone, gripping, happy, heated, hectic, het up, hot, impassioned, in a lather, inspired, nail biting, rhapsodical, spirited, stormy, thrilling, tiptoe, vibrant, warm, wrought up, zealous), coşkun (ardent, boiling over, ebullient, effervescent, elated, exalted, exuberant, fervent, frenzied, impetuous, overflowing, rhapsodical, sharp). (various references)

Ukranian		рапсодичний, екзальтований (exalted, rapturous). (various references)

Vietnamese		khoa trương (flamboyant, heroic, high-falutin, high-faluting, high-sounding, orotund, pompous, rhapsodical). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "rhapsodic": rhapsodical, rhapsodically. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Rhapsodic" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Rapsodie, rhapsode, rhapsodes, rhapsodia, rhapsodie, Rhipsalis. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "rhapsodic" (pronounced rapsÄ"dik)
5	-s Ä" d i k	episodic.
4	-Ä" d i k	melodic, periodic.
3	-d i k	acidic, Benedick, comedic, encyclopedic, heraldic, medic, nomadic, nordic, orthopedic, paramedic, sporadic, tornadic.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-c-d-h-i-o-p-r-s"
	-1 letter: picadors, pochards, scaphoid, sporadic.
	-2 letters: carhops, chadors, coprahs, hairdos, isopach, orchids, parodic, picador, picaros, pochard, prosaic, sarcoid, sparoid.
	-3 letters: aphids, aroids, cairds, capris, capsid, carhop, chador, chadri, chairs, chards, chiros, chirps, choirs, chords, coprah, copras, darics, hairdo, hoards, ichors, orchid, orchis, orphic, parish, pharos, phasic, picaro, poisha, psocid, rachis, radios, radish, raphis, rapids.
	Words containing the letters "a-c-d-h-i-o-p-r-s"
	+1 letter: chipboards.
	+2 letters: aphrodisiac, brachiopods, comradeship, diastrophic, discography, harpsichord, rhapsodical.
	+3 letters: aphrodisiacs, branchiopods, cardiographs, comradeships, demographics, diaphoretics, dictatorship, discographer, discographic, harpsichords, orthopaedics.
	+4 letters: anaphrodisiac, aphrodisiacal, cardiopathies, commandership, dictatorships, discographers, discographies, hypochondrias, quadraphonics, quadriphonics, rhapsodically.
	+5 letters: achondroplasia, anaphrodisiacs, cardiographies, cephaloridines, commanderships, discographical, harpsichordist, hydrocephalics, hydrocephalies, hypochondriacs, polysaccharide, psychodramatic.
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