ecstatic

UK: /ɛkˈstætɪk/ US: /ɛkˈstætɪk/ ,(ek stat′ik)

WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2026

ec•stat•ic  (ek stat′ik), adj. 

1. of, pertaining to, or characterized by ecstasy.
2. subject to or in a state of ecstasy;
   rapturous.

n. 

3. a person subject to fits of ecstasy.

• Greek ekstatikós, equivalent. to ek- ec- + statikós static. See ecstasy
• Medieval Latin ecstaticus
• Middle French extatique)
• (1620–30

ec•stat′i•cal•ly, adv. 

Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers::

ecstatic / ɛkˈstætɪk/ adjective

1. in a trancelike state of great rapture or delight
2. showing or feeling great enthusiasm

noun

1. a person who has periods of intense trancelike joy

ecˈstatically adverb

WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2026

ec•sta•sy /ˈɛkstəsi/   n., pl. -sies. 

1. [uncountable] extreme joyfulness or happiness; rapture.
2. [countable] any overpowering emotion;
   sudden, intense feeling or excitement.

ec•stat•ic /ɛkˈstætɪk/  adj. 
ec•stat•ic•al•ly, adv. 

WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2026

ec•sta•sy  (ek′stə sē), n., pl. -sies. 

1. rapturous delight.
2. an overpowering emotion or exaltation;
   a state of sudden, intense feeling.
3. the frenzy of poetic inspiration.
4. mental transport or rapture from the contemplation of divine things.

• Greek ékstasis displacement, trance, equivalent. to ek- ec- + stásis stasis
• Medieval Latin extasis
• Middle French
• Middle English extasie 1350–1400

Synonyms

• 2. delight, bliss, elation.
  Ecstasy, rapture, transport, exaltation share a sense of being taken or moved out of one's self or one's normal state, and entering a state of intensified or heightened feeling.
  Ecstasy suggests an intensification of emotion so powerful as to produce a trancelike dissociation from all but the single overpowering feeling:
  an ecstasy of rage, grief, love.
  Rapture shares the power of ecstasy but most often refers to an elevated sensation of bliss or delight, either carnal or spiritual:
  the rapture of first love.
  Transport, somewhat less extreme than either ecstasy or rapture, implies a strength of feeling that results in expression of some kind:
  They jumped up and down in a transport of delight.
  Exaltation refers to a heady sense of personal well-being so powerful that one is lifted above normal emotional levels and above normal people:
  wild exaltation at having finally broken the record.