rapturous

UK/ˈɹæp.t͡ʃəɹ.əs/US/ˈɹæp.t͡ʃəɹ.əs/

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Rapturous means full of overwhelming delight. A rapturous welcome.

It is used of applause and of receptions far more than of any private feeling. A rapturous review is one that has stopped judging altogether.

Definitions of rapturous

1adjectiverapturousFull of overwhelming delight.C2
“The rapturous applause went on for four minutes.”

rapturous is a quality.

Where it comes from

Latin
raptūra
Middle French
rapture
English
rapture
English, today
rapturous

Built from

rapiō · Latin — snatch, carry off

From rapture + -ous. rapture Middle French rapture, from Latin raptūra, future active participle of rapiō (“snatch, carry off”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practise this word

rapturous in the wild

The grandest such version was his triumphant return from "India", which influenced symbolic conceptions of the Roman triumph and was narrated in rapturous detail in Nonnus's Dionysiaca.
Thiasus
On 30 June 2012 Mods played at a very successful and well attended concert at the Viking Stavanger Football Stadium, to rapturous applause.
Mods (band)
Ayers launched Abbey Road, the Beatles' last recorded album, on his show Late Night Line-Up to rapturous applause in late 1969.
Rowan Ayers
Other Transcendentalist themes concerning rapturous union with Nature can be found in the writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry Thoreau, and John Muir.
The Story of My Heart
On arrival in New York they received a rapturous welcome and attempted to reunite the badly split Fenian Brotherhood.
Cuba Five

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Related words

the rapiō family

rapture rapt

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