Ecstatic Meaning
/ɛkˈstætɪk/Definition, CEFR level B2, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
adjFeeling or characterized by ecstasy.
adjExtremely happy.
Sentence Examples
The fans were ecstatic about the win.
I was elated, ecstatic and extremely surprised that we were successful.
CEFR Practice Quiz
The crowd was ____ when the home team scored the winning goal.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The fans were ____ about the win.
Word Origin & History
Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἐκστατικός (ekstatikós). By surface analysis, ecstasy + -tic.
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"[W]hilſt he heſitated there, the criſis of pleaſure overtook him, and the cloſe compreſſure of the vvarm ſurrounding fold, drevv from him the extatic guſh, even before mine vvas ready to meet it, kept up by the pain I had endur'd in the courſe of the engagement, from the unſufferable ſize of his vveapon, tho' it vvas not as yet in above half its length."
— 1749, [John Cleland], “[Letter the First]”, in Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure [Fanny Hill], volume I, London: […] [Thomas Parker] for G. Fenton [i.e., Fenton and Ralph Griffiths] […], →OCLC, page 194:
"The moment of ejaculation in mammiferous animals is accompanied by universal excitement of the whole body, a kind of slight convulsion, which terminates in a comatose or exstatic state."
— 1837, Michael Ryan, The Philosophy of Marriage, in Its Social, Moral, and Physical Relations; with an Account of the Diseases of the Genito-urinary Organs which Impair or Destroy the Reproductive Function; and Induce a Variety of Complaints; with the Physiology of Generation in the Vegetable and Animal Kingdoms …, London: John Churchill, Princes' Street, Soho, →OCLC, page 191:
"Bobbie was dancing round the room on the tips of her toes uttering animal cries, apparently ecstatic in their nature."
— 1960, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, chapter XIX, in Jeeves in the Offing, London: Herbert Jenkins, →OCLC:
"this ecstatic fit of love and jealousy"
— 1649, Henry Hammond, The Pastor's Motto:
"I think that Dante's more abstruse ecstatics / Meant to personify the Mathematics."
— 1819, Lord Byron, Don Juan, III.11:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
The crowd was ____ when the home team scored the winning goal.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The fans were ____ about the win.