RAPT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does rapt mean? 

• RAPT (adjective)
  The adjective RAPT has 1 sense:

1. feeling great rapture or delight

  Familiarity information: RAPT used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RAPT (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Feeling great rapture or delight

Synonyms:

ecstatic; enraptured; rapt; rapturous; rhapsodic

Similar:

joyous (full of or characterized by joy)

 Context examples 

This spectacle of another's suffering and sacrifice rapt my thoughts from exclusive meditation on my own.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

I was standing, rapt in the peaceful beauty of the scene, when I was aware that something was moving under the shadow of the copper beeches.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

She glanced about her and saw the others gazing at him with rapt attention; and she would have despaired had not she seen horror in her mother's eyes—fascinated horror, it was true, but none the less horror.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Alleyne might talk to her of the stories of old gods and heroes, of gallant deeds and lofty aims, or he might hold forth upon moon and stars, and let his fancy wander over the hidden secrets of the universe, and he would have a rapt listener with flushed cheeks and eloquent eyes, who could repeat after him the very words which had fallen from his lips.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Among these the ladies choose their gallants: but the vexation is, that they act with too much ease and security; for the husband is always so rapt in speculation, that the mistress and lover may proceed to the greatest familiarities before his face, if he be but provided with paper and implements, and without his flapper at his side.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

A very short visit to Mrs. Allen, in which Henry talked at random, without sense or connection, and Catherine, rapt in the contemplation of her own unutterable happiness, scarcely opened her lips, dismissed them to the ecstasies of another tete-a-tete; and before it was suffered to close, she was enabled to judge how far he was sanctioned by parental authority in his present application.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)