Synonyms for rapture
ˈræp tʃərrap·ture

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1. rapture

   The old meaning of enthusiasm implies a pseudo-inspiration, an almost frantic extravagance in behalf of something supposed to be an expression of the divine will. This sense remains as the controlling one in the kindred noun enthusiast. Enthusiasm has now chiefly the meaning of an earnest and commendable devotion, an intense and eager interest. Against the hindrances of the world, nothing great and good can be carried without a certain fervor, intensity, and vehemence; these joined with faith, courage, and hopefulness make enthusiasm. Zeal is burning earnestness, always tending to vigorous action with all the devotion of enthusiasm, tho often without its hopefulness. Compare EAGER.

   Synonyms:
   ardor, devotion, eagerness, earnestness, ecstasy, enthusiasm, excitement, extravagance, fanaticism, fervency, fervor, frenzy, inspiration, intensity, passion, transport, vehemence, warmth, zeal

   Antonyms:
   calculation, calmness, caution, coldness, deadness, dulness, indifference, lukewarmness, policy, prudence, timidity, wariness

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1. rapture

   Synonyms:
   ecstasy, transport, bliss, ravishment, delight

   Antonyms:
   agony, torture, pain, tedium, ennui, irksomeness

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1. ecstasy, rapture, transport, exaltation, raptusnoun

   a state of being carried away by overwhelming emotion

   "listening to sweet music in a perfect rapture"- Charles Dickens

   Synonyms:
   go, transferral, hug drug, disco biscuit, ictus, tape transport, transport, seizure, shipping, deification, transportation, apotheosis, raptus, exaltation, tape drive, transfer, ecstasy, conveyance, cristal

2. ecstasy, rapturenoun

   a state of elated bliss

   Synonyms:
   raptus, cristal, exaltation, disco biscuit, ecstasy, go, hug drug, transport

Matched Categories

1. • Bliss

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1. rapturenoun

   Synonyms:
   transport, ecstasy, ravishment, beatitude, beatification, bliss, great happiness, heavenly joy

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1. rapturenoun

   Synonyms:
   ecstasy, transport, delight, bliss, beatitude

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1. List of paraphrases for "rapture":

   ecstasy, palace, bliss, delight

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How to use rapture in a sentence?

1. Publius Ovidius NasoOvid:

   The glow of inspiration warms us it is a holy rapture.

2. Allison Kearney:

   Laughter is complete rapture vocalized.

3. D. H. Lawrence:

   We ought to dance with rapture that we might be alive - and part of the living, incarnate cosmos.

4. Ben Carson:

   I don't believe in a secret rapture, where people just, he's just sitting here one minute and he disappears.

5. George Gordon Byron:

   There is pleasure in the pathless woods, there is rapture in the lonely shore, there is society where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar I love not Man the less, but Nature more.