rapture

I

(New American Roget's College Thesaurus)

n. ecstasy, transport, bliss, joy, delight. See pleasure.

II

(Roget's IV) n.

1. [Delight]

Syn. happiness, pleasure, joy, satisfaction, enjoyment, felicity, exhilaration, contentment, gladness, gratification, enchantment, bewitchment, elation, euphoria, ecstasy, transport, rhapsody, jubilation, buoyancy, altitudes*, seventh heaven*, cloud nine*; see also happiness 2 .

Ant. pain*, grief, affliction.

2. [An ecstatic state]

Syn. ecstasy, bliss, transport, beatitude, exaltation, enchantment, passion, glory, elysium, paradise, inspiration, enthusiasm, divine communion, mystical trance, at-oneness; see also sense 1.

Syn.- rapture now generally suggests the mental exaltation experienced when one's entire attention is captured by something that evokes Great joy or pleasure; ecstasy implies extreme emotional exaltation, now usually intense delight, that overpowers the senses and lifts one into a trancelike state; bliss implies a state of Great happiness and contentment, often suggesting heavenly joy; transport applies to any powerful emotion by which one is carried away

III

(Roget's 3 Superthesaurus) n.

ecstasy, euphoria, elation, joy, happiness, bliss, transport, heaven, exultation.

ANT.: depression, misery, melancholy

IV

(Roget's Thesaurus II) noun A state of elated bliss: ecstasy, heaven, paradise, seventh heaven, transport. Informal: cloud nine. See HAPPY.