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extatick

extatick is the obsolete spelling of ecstatic.

Meaning of ecstatic

Adjective

ecstatic (comparative more ecstatic, superlative most ecstatic)

  1. Feeling or characterized by ecstasy.
    • [W]hilſt he heſitated there, the criſis of pleaſure overtook him, and the cloſe compreſſure of the vvarm ſurrounding fold, drevv from him the extatic guſh, even before mine vvas ready to meet it, kept up by the pain I had endur'd in the courſe of the engagement, from the unſufferable ſize of his...1749, [John Cleland], “[Letter the First]”, in Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure [Fanny Hill], volume I, London: […] [Thomas Parker] for G. Fenton [i.e., Fenton and Ralph Griffiths] […], →OCLC, page 194
    Synonyms:
    delirious, rapturous
  2. Extremely happy.
    • Bobbie was dancing round the room on the tips of her toes uttering animal cries, apparently ecstatic in their nature.1960, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, chapter XIX, in Jeeves in the Offing, London: Herbert Jenkins, →OCLC
  3. Relating to, or caused by, ecstasy or excessive emotion.
    • ecstatic gaze ecstatic trance

See all 5 meanings of ecstatic

Forms of extatick

comparativemore extatick
superlativemost extatick

Questions about extatick

What is extatick the obsolete spelling of?
Extatick is the obsolete spelling of ecstatic.

Words near extatick in the dictionary

  1. extasy
  2. extasying
  3. extatic
  4. extatical
  5. extatically
  6. extatick
  7. extatique
  8. exteacher
  9. exteachers
  10. extein
  11. exteins

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Adapted from Wiktionary: extatick (page history and authors); ecstatic (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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