RAPTUROUS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does rapturous mean? 

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

1. feeling great rapture or delight

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• RAPTUROUS (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Feeling great rapture or delight

Synonyms:

ecstatic; enraptured; rapt; rapturous; rhapsodic

Similar:

joyous (full of or characterized by joy)

Derivation:

rapture (a state of being carried away by overwhelming emotion)

rapture (a state of elated bliss)

 Context examples 

The Miss Bertrams' admiration of Mr. Crawford was more rapturous than anything which Miss Crawford's habits made her likely to feel.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

Traddles looked astonished, as he well might; but he had no notion as yet of my rapturous condition.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

This was a surprise even to the actors, and when they saw the table, they looked at one another in rapturous amazement.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

The quiet, heart-felt satisfaction of the old lady, and the rapturous delight of her daughter—who proved even too joyous to talk as usual, had been a gratifying, yet almost an affecting, scene.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

Not one, however, started with rapturous wonder on beholding her, no whisper of eager inquiry ran round the room, nor was she once called a divinity by anybody.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

Encouraged by this to a further examination of his opinions, she proceeded to question him on the subject of books; her favourite authors were brought forward and dwelt upon with so rapturous a delight, that any young man of five and twenty must have been insensible indeed, not to become an immediate convert to the excellence of such works, however disregarded before.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

From the entrance-hall, of which Mr. Collins pointed out, with a rapturous air, the fine proportion and the finished ornaments, they followed the servants through an ante-chamber, to the room where Lady Catherine, her daughter, and Mrs. Jenkinson were sitting.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

For some days afterwards, I am lost in rapturous reflections; but I neither see her in the street, nor when I call.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Jo paused a little over the last word, but Laurie uttered it with a rapturous expression.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Marianne was afraid of offending, and said no more on the subject; but the kind of approbation which Elinor described as excited in him by the drawings of other people, was very far from that rapturous delight, which, in her opinion, could alone be called taste.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)