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10 Language-to-English Dictionariesextatique
Pronunciation / Transliteration: /ɛk.sta.tik/
"Ils étaient extatiques après cette victoire historique."
Comprehensive Definitions & Senses
2 senses- 1
Feeling or expressing overwhelming happiness or joyful excitement.
"She was ecstatic when she learned she had won the national poetry award." - 2
Involving an experience of mystic self-transcendence or religious rapture.
"The dervishes performed their ecstatic dance beneath the night sky."
Thesaurus & Semantic Spectrum
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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10 Global Lexicons: How "Ecstatic" is said worldwide
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extatique
Transliteration: /ɛk.sta.tik/
"Ils étaient extatiques après cette victoire historique."
ekstatisch
Transliteration: /ɛkˈʃtaːtɪʃ/
"Die Fans waren ekstatisch, als ihre Band die Bühne betrat."
estatico
Transliteration: /eˈsta.ti.ko/
"Ricevuta la notizia, rimase in uno stato estatico."
éxtasis
Transliteration: /eksˈta.siko/
"Los seguidores estaban estáticos ante el anuncio del artista."
extático
Transliteration: /isˈta.tʃi.ku/
"Ele ficou extático ao receber a proposta de emprego."
परमानंदित
Transliteration: paramanandit
"अपनी परीक्षा में सफलता पाकर वह परमानंदित थी।"
狂喜的
Transliteration: kuáng xǐ de
"听到这个好消息，大家感到狂喜。"
황홀해하는
Transliteration: hwangholhaehaneun
"그는 합격 소식을 듣고 황홀해했다."
狂喜した
Transliteration: kyōki shita
"彼女はその知らせを聞いて狂喜した。"
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