as in ecstatic
experiencing or marked by overwhelming usually pleasurable emotion
enrapt concertgoers just sat there in motionless silence as the pianist flawlessly executed the piece
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Recent Examples of enrapt
They are too enwrapped in their own stories, too enrapt, to pay attention to her.
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Yiyun Li, Harper’s Magazine , 28 Sep. 2022
In the 1970s, anti-Japanese sentiments faded as Americans became enrapt with health foods.
—Heather Arndt Anderson, Slate Magazine, 18 Sep. 2017
Yiyun Li, Harper’s Magazine , 28 Sep. 2022
In the 1970s, anti-Japanese sentiments faded as Americans became enrapt with health foods.
—Heather Arndt Anderson, Slate Magazine, 18 Sep. 2017
Recent Examples of Synonyms for enrapt
Adjective
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Douglas, for one, was ecstatic about the opportunity to reunite with his former teammate.—
Miami Herald,
Miami Herald,
25 Apr. 2026
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Practitioners can find more than 180 classes per week at The Yoga Barn, an epicenter of yin, vinyasa, Hatha, and kundalini, plus meditation, sound healing, and ecstatic dance.—
Kathryn Romeyn,
Travel + Leisure,
24 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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Eurodance with the bass-heavy Swedish genre EPA-dunk and 3Cha—the giddy electronic dance music from Thaiboy’s home region of Isaan in Thailand—to form a new kind of globalist hyperpop.—
Harry Thorfinn-George,
Pitchfork,
27 Apr. 2026
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Their struggle has upturned the tabletop candle that illuminates the scene and any moment will surely extinguish it, effacing the giddy pattern formed by the writhing bodies and glowing, veiny bladder skin.—
Julian Bell,
The New York Review of Books,
25 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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Little details impossible to see even from the front row — fingers triggering thunderous beats from a drum machine, the sweat beading on an artist’s forehead — are intercut rhythmically with sweeping wide shots that reveal dramatic lighting schemes and enraptured masses.—
Andrea Domanick,
Los Angeles Times,
26 Apr. 2026
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Austen’s beloved novels have enraptured generations for over 200 years.—
Dessi Gomez,
Deadline,
24 Feb. 2026
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“Enrapt.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/enrapt. Accessed 3 May. 2026.
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