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🇨🇳Chinese Source WordCode: ZH

狂喜的

Pronunciation / Transliteration: kuáng xǐ de

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Ecstatic/ɪkˈstæt.ɪk/
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🇨🇳 Example Sentence in Chinese:

"听到这个好消息,大家感到狂喜。"

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As adjective
  1. 1

    Feeling or expressing overwhelming happiness or joyful excitement.

    "She was ecstatic when she learned she had won the national poetry award."
  2. 2

    Involving an experience of mystic self-transcendence or religious rapture.

    "The dervishes performed their ecstatic dance beneath the night sky."

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Antonyms & Contrasting Words (1)

Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

The word originates from the Late Latin ecstaticus, derived from the Greek ekstatikos, meaning 'driven out of oneself' or 'insane,' formed from ek- ('out') and histanai ('to place'). In medieval and early modern English, it initially retained religious and mystical connotations of trance or rapture, before shifting by the 18th century to describe intense overwhelming happiness or joy.

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