ecstatic

English

Alternative forms

• ecstatick (obsolete)
• extatic (obsolete)
• extatick (obsolete)
• extatique (obsolete, rare)

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἐκστατικός (ekstatikós). Surface analysis: ecstasy +‎ -atic.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɛkˈstætɪk/

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Adjective

ecstatic (comparative more ecstatic, superlative most ecstatic)

1. Feeling or characterized by ecstasy.
   • 1837, Michael Ryan, The Philosophy of Marriage, in Its Social, Moral, and Physical Relations; with an Account of the Diseases of the Genito-urinary Organs which Impair or Destroy the Reproductive Function; and Induce a Variety of Complaints; with the Physiology of Generation in the Vegetable and Animal Kingdoms [...], London: John Churchill, Princes' Street, Soho, OCLC 243495533, page 191:

     The moment of ejaculation in mammiferous animals is accompanied by universal excitement of the whole body, a kind of slight convulsion, which terminates in a comatose or exstatic state.

2. Extremely happy.
   • 1960, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, chapter XIX, in Jeeves in the Offing, London: Herbert Jenkins, OCLC 1227855:

     Bobbie was dancing round the room on the tips of her toes uttering animal cries, apparently ecstatic in their nature.

3. Relating to, or caused by, ecstasy or excessive emotion.

   ecstatic gaze; ecstatic trance

   • Hammond

     this ecstatic fit of love and jealousy

Synonyms

• blissful
• delirious
• elated
• euphoric
• joyful
• joyous

Translations

feeling or characterized by ecstasy

• Finnish: hurmioitunut, haltioitunut
• French: extatique (fr)
• German: ekstatisch (de)
• Greek: εκστατικός (el) (ekstatikós)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: ekstatisk

  Nynorsk: ekstatisk

• Russian: экстати́ческий (ru) (ekstatíčeskij)
• Spanish: extasiado (es)
• Swedish: extatisk (sv)

extremely happy

• Finnish: hurmioitunut, haltioitunut
• German: ekstatisch (de)
• Maori: harikoa, manahau
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: ekstatisk

  Nynorsk: ekstatisk

• Russian: восто́рженный (ru) (vostóržennyj)
• Tagalog: pinakamasaya
• Winnebago: gipįįhawįc

Noun

ecstatic (plural ecstatics)

1. (in the plural) Transports of delight; words or actions performed in a state of ecstasy.
   • 1819, Lord Byron, Don Juan, III.11:

     I think that Dante's more abstruse ecstatics / Meant to personify the Mathematics.

2. A person in a state of ecstasy.
   • 1993, William A. Graham, Beyond the written word: oral aspects of scripture in the history of religion, Cambridge University Press:

     If there is anything that can be called protoscripture, it is surely the utterances of ecstatics, prophets and seers...