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ecstatically

adverbC1Rare in speech; mostly a word you read · #14,394 of 15,258neutral

Ecstatically means with overwhelming joy. Ecstatically happy.

It is stronger than delighted and is used of reactions rather than of moods. Ecstatically received is the standard phrase in a review of a first night.

Definitions of ecstatically

  1. 1adverbecstaticallyWith overwhelming joy.C1

    “The news was received ecstatically by everybody except the accountant.”

ecstatically is a manner.

Where it comes from

  1. Ancient Greek

    ἐκστατικός

  2. English

    ecstatic

  3. English, today

    ecstatically

From ecstatic + -ally. ecstatic Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἐκστατικός. by surface analysis, ecstasy + -tic.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practise this word

ecstatically in the wild

  • For the Ancient Greeks and Romans they sang ecstatically, were sacred to Apollo and related to the dionysiac bacchae and maenads.

    Cicadas in mythology

From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.

Related words

  • ecstasy
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