Word Meanings - ECSTASY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A state which consists in total suspension of sensibility, of voluntary motion, and largely of mental power. The body is erect and inflexible; the pulsation and breathing are not affected. Mayne. (more info) 1. The state of being beside one's self

Additional info about word: ECSTASY

A state which consists in total suspension of sensibility, of voluntary motion, and largely of mental power. The body is erect and inflexible; the pulsation and breathing are not affected. Mayne. (more info) 1. The state of being beside one's self or rapt out of one's self; a state in which the mind is elevated above the reach of ordinary impressions, as when under the influence of overpowering emotion; an extraordinary elevation of the spirit, as when the soul, unconscious of sensible objects, is supposed to contemplate heavenly mysteries. Like a mad prophet in an ecstasy. Dryden. This is the very ecstasy of love. Shak. 2. Excessive and overmastering joy or enthusiasm; rapture; enthusiastic delight. He on the tender grass Would sit, and hearken even to ecstasy. Milton. 3. Violent distraction of mind; violent emotion; excessive grief of anxiety; insanity; madness. That unmatched form and feature of blown youth Blasted with ecstasy. Shak. Our words will but increase his ecstasy. Marlowe.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of ECSTASY)

• Bliss
• Blessedness
• joy
• ecstasy
• rapture
• Delight
• Enjoyment
• pleasure
• happiness
• transport
• gratification
• gladness
• bliss
• Exultation
• Transport
• delight
• triumph
• Intoxication
• Venom
• poison
• obfuscation
• bewilderment
• delirium
• hallucination
• ravishment
• inebriation
• drunkenness
• inebriety
• Joy
• Gladness
• exultation
• felicity
• bites
• gaiety
• mirth
• merriment
• festivity
• hilarity

Related words: (words related to ECSTASY)

• DELIGHTING
  Giving delight; gladdening. -- De*light"ing*ly, adv. Jer. Taylor.
• BLISS
  Orig., blithesomeness; gladness; now, the highest degree of happiness; blessedness; exalted felicity; heavenly joy. An then at last our bliss Full and perfect is. Milton. Syn. -- Blessedness; felicity; beatitude; happiness; joy; enjoyment.
• DELIGHTLESS
  Void of delight. Thomson.
• TRANSPORTING
  That transports; fig., ravishing. Your transporting chords ring out. Keble.
• TRANSPORTAL
  Transportation; the act of removing from one locality to another. "The transportal of seeds in the wool or fur of quadrupeds." Darwin.
• TRANSPORTABILITY
  The quality or state of being transportable.
• HILARITY
  Boisterous mirth; merriment; jollity. Goldsmith. Note: Hilarity differs from joy: the latter, excited by good news or prosperity, is an affection of the mind; the former, produced by social pleasure, drinking, etc., which rouse the animal spirits,
• POISON CUP
  1. A cup containing poison. 2. A cup that was supposed to break on having poison put into it.
• DRUNKENNESS
  1. The state of being drunken with, or as with, alcoholic liquor; intoxication; inebriety; -- used of the casual state or the habit. The Lacedemonians trained up their children to hate drunkenness by bringing a drunken man into their company. I.
• TRANSPORTED
  Conveyed from one place to another; figuratively, carried away with passion or pleasure; entranced. -- Trans*port"ed*ly, adv. -- Trans*port"ed*ness, n.
• POISONSOME
  Poisonous. Holland.
• TRIUMPHANTLY
  In a triumphant manner.
• TRANSPORT
  1. To carry or bear from one place to another; to remove; to convey; as, to transport goods; to transport troops. Hakluyt. 2. To carry, or cause to be carried, into banishment, as a criminal; to banish. 3. To carry away with vehement emotion, as
• DELIGHTOUS
  Delightful. Rom. of R.
• FELICITY
  1. The state of being happy; blessedness; blissfulness; enjoyment of good. Our own felicity we make or find. Johnson. Finally, after this life, to attain everlasting joy and felicity. Book of Common Prayer. 2. That which promotes happiness;
• TRANSPORTABLE
  1. Capable of being transported. 2. Incurring, or subject to, the punishment of transportation; as, a transportable offense.
• INEBRIATION
  The condition of being inebriated; intoxication; figuratively, deprivation of sense and judgment by anything that exhilarates, as success. Sir T. Browne. Preserve him from the inebriation of prosperity. Macaulay. Syn. -- See Drunkenness.
• GRATIFICATION
  1. The act of gratifying, or pleasing, either the mind, the taste, or the appetite; as, the gratification of the palate, of the appetites, of the senses, of the desires, of the heart. 2. That which affords pleasure; satisfaction; enjoyment;
• TRANSPORTER
  One who transports.
• BLISSLESS
  Destitute of bliss. Sir P. Sidney.
• OUTVENOM
  To exceed in venom.
• MISTRANSPORT
  To carry away or mislead wrongfully, as by passion. Bp. Hall.
• ENVENOM
  1. To taint or impregnate with venom, or any substance noxious to life; to poison; to render dangerous or deadly by poison, as food, drink, a weapon; as, envenomed meat, wine, or arrow; also, to poison by impregnating with venom. Alcides . . .
• SPIT-VENOM
  Poison spittle; poison ejected from the mouth. Hooker.
• EMPOISONMENT
  The act of poisoning. Bacon.