as in ecstatic
experiencing or marked by overwhelming usually pleasurable emotion
heard the whoops of the rapturous fan whose quest for an autograph had met with success
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Recent Examples of rapturous
In fact, Parker had just finished his first full album with Tortoise, the rapturous TNT, when Mitchell’s invitation arrived.
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Grayson Haver Currin, Pitchfork, 30 Apr. 2026
He was met with rapturous standing ovations at the New York Philharmonic and San Francisco Symphony upon his return to the stage months later.
—Jessica Gelt, Los Angeles Times, 23 Apr. 2026
In his first-ever CinemaCon stage appearance, Spielberg received a rapturous standing ovation and showed some intriguing Disclosure Day footage which helped lessen some of the box office uncertainty surrounding the title.
—James Hibberd, HollywoodReporter, 17 Apr. 2026
On every stop, journalists were amazed by the American public’s rapturous response to Edward.
—Hadley Hall Meares, Vanity Fair, 15 Apr. 2026
Last week, the New York Times published a rapturous profile of a drug marketing company called Medvi, which the paper declared to be the first one-ish man venture on track to surpass one billion dollars in revenue while leaning almost exclusively on AI to build and scale the business.
—Maggie Harrison Dupré, Futurism, 9 Apr. 2026
Choreographers Arturo Lyons and Omari Wiles have these confident contestants shine with struts, sashays, splits, dips, duckwalks, vogueing and death-drops, each trying to outdo the other, urged on by a rapturous crowd.
—Frank Rizzo, Variety, 8 Apr. 2026
The show also earned a rapturous reception from many doctors and nurses because of its accuracy and sympathetic portrayal of their profession.
—Encyclopedia Britannica, 7 Apr. 2026
But all of this rapturous gazing made up a terribly small fraction of the experience of being a parent.
—Daniel Smith, The Atlantic, 27 Feb. 2026
Grayson Haver Currin, Pitchfork, 30 Apr. 2026
He was met with rapturous standing ovations at the New York Philharmonic and San Francisco Symphony upon his return to the stage months later.
—Jessica Gelt, Los Angeles Times, 23 Apr. 2026
In his first-ever CinemaCon stage appearance, Spielberg received a rapturous standing ovation and showed some intriguing Disclosure Day footage which helped lessen some of the box office uncertainty surrounding the title.
—James Hibberd, HollywoodReporter, 17 Apr. 2026
On every stop, journalists were amazed by the American public’s rapturous response to Edward.
—Hadley Hall Meares, Vanity Fair, 15 Apr. 2026
Last week, the New York Times published a rapturous profile of a drug marketing company called Medvi, which the paper declared to be the first one-ish man venture on track to surpass one billion dollars in revenue while leaning almost exclusively on AI to build and scale the business.
—Maggie Harrison Dupré, Futurism, 9 Apr. 2026
Choreographers Arturo Lyons and Omari Wiles have these confident contestants shine with struts, sashays, splits, dips, duckwalks, vogueing and death-drops, each trying to outdo the other, urged on by a rapturous crowd.
—Frank Rizzo, Variety, 8 Apr. 2026
The show also earned a rapturous reception from many doctors and nurses because of its accuracy and sympathetic portrayal of their profession.
—Encyclopedia Britannica, 7 Apr. 2026
But all of this rapturous gazing made up a terribly small fraction of the experience of being a parent.
—Daniel Smith, The Atlantic, 27 Feb. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for rapturous
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
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“Rapturous.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rapturous. Accessed 2 May. 2026.
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