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ec·stat·ic  (k-sttk)
adj.
1. Marked by or expressing ecstasy.
2. Being in a state of ecstasy; joyful or enraptured.

[French extatique, from Greek ekstatikos, from ekstasis, distraction; see ecstasy.]

ec·stati·cal·ly adv.

ecstatic [ɛkˈstætɪk]
adj
1. in a trancelike state of great rapture or delight
2. showing or feeling great enthusiasm ecstatic applause
n
a person who has periods of intense trancelike joy
ecstatically  adv
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Adj.1.ecstatic - feeling great rapture or delight
joyous - full of or characterized by joy; "felt a joyous abandon"; "joyous laughter"

ecstatic
adjective rapturous, entranced, enthusiastic, frenzied, joyous, fervent, joyful, elated, over the moon (informal), overjoyed, blissful, delirious, euphoric, enraptured, on cloud nine (informal), cock-a-hoop, blissed out, transported, rhapsodic, sent, walking on air, in seventh heaven, floating on air, in exaltation, in transports of delight He was ecstatic about the birth of his first child.
Translations
ecstatic [eksˈtætɪk] ADJ (Rel) → extático (fig) → contentísimo, eufórico
ecstatic [ɛkˈstætɪk] adj [person] → extatique, en extase; [reception, welcome] → triomphal(e)
to be ecstatic → être en extase
ecstatic
ecstatic [ɛksˈtætɪk] adjestatico/a, in estasi
ecstatic [ɛksˈtætɪk] adjestatico/a, in estasi


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Perhaps Sinbad or Christian could have conceived of my ecstatic relief; yet so far as the popular vision reached I was not returning to literature, but to the printing business, and I myself felt the difference.
His pleasure in music, though it amounted not to that ecstatic delight which alone could sympathize with her own, was estimable when contrasted against the horrible insensibility of the others; and she was reasonable enough to allow that a man of five and thirty might well have outlived all acuteness of feeling and every exquisite power of enjoyment.
Having seen that it was really her lover who had advanced, and no one else, her lips parted, and she sank upon him in her momentary joy, with something very like an ecstatic cry.
 
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