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also rhapsodical
as in ecstatic
experiencing or marked by overwhelming usually pleasurable emotion
the jingle used in the commercial is a humorously rhapsodic celebration of fast food
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Recent Examples of rhapsodic
The actress went on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon and waxed rhapsodic about cruising, following a trip to Antarctica.
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Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 3 Mar. 2026
The Bee’s general assignment reporter, Graham Womack, a Sacramento native, waxed rhapsodic about Marie’s as a lifelong destination.
—Sean Timberlake, Sacbee.com, 12 Feb. 2026
There, Trump and her designers wax rhapsodic over a gown designed to disguise any seams, admire an inaugural dinner menu that begins with caviar in a big golden egg and discuss the furnishings that will be moved in as soon as the Bidens move out.
—Culture Critic, Los Angeles Times, 31 Jan. 2026
Lately, Coll has found a distinctive voice—a kind of romantic neo-modernism, abrasive and rhapsodic by turns.
—Alex Ross, New Yorker, 1 Dec. 2025
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Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 3 Mar. 2026
The Bee’s general assignment reporter, Graham Womack, a Sacramento native, waxed rhapsodic about Marie’s as a lifelong destination.
—Sean Timberlake, Sacbee.com, 12 Feb. 2026
There, Trump and her designers wax rhapsodic over a gown designed to disguise any seams, admire an inaugural dinner menu that begins with caviar in a big golden egg and discuss the furnishings that will be moved in as soon as the Bidens move out.
—Culture Critic, Los Angeles Times, 31 Jan. 2026
Lately, Coll has found a distinctive voice—a kind of romantic neo-modernism, abrasive and rhapsodic by turns.
—Alex Ross, New Yorker, 1 Dec. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for rhapsodic
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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“Rhapsodic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rhapsodic. Accessed 1 May. 2026.
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