rapt
/ˈɹæpt/
rapt adjective: snatched, taken away; abducted.
Adjective
rapt (comparative more rapt or (less common) rapter, superlative most rapt or (less common) raptest)
- Snatched, taken away; abducted.
- And through the Greeks and Ilians they rapt / The whirring chariot.[1611?], Homer, “(please specify |book=I to XXIV)”, in Geo[rge] Chapman, transl., The Iliads of Homer Prince of Poets. […], London: […] Nathaniell Butter, →OCLC; republished as The Iliads of Homer...
- From Oxford I was rapt by my nephew, Sir Edmund Francis Bacon, to Redgrove.1626, Henry Wotton, letter to Nicholas Pey
- Lifted up into the air; transported into heaven.
- Very interested, involved in something, absorbed, transfixed; fascinated or engrossed.
- The children watched in rapt attention as the magician produced object after object from his hat.
- 1851-2, George W. M. Reynolds, The Necromancer, in Reynolds′s Miscellany, republished 1857; 2008, page 247,
It was an enthusiasm of the most rapt and holy kind.
- Enthusiastic; ecstatic, elated, happy.
- He was rapt with his exam results.
- I […]am rapt to see my Marcia's tears.1712 (date written), [Joseph] Addison, Cato, a Tragedy. […], London: […] J[acob] Tonson, […], published 1713, →OCLC, Act IV, scene i, page 49
Verb
rapt (third-person singular simple present rapts, present participle rapting, simple past and past participle rapted or rapt)
- To transport or ravish.
- The Bards with furie rapt, the British youth among,
Unto the charming Harpe thy future honor song1612, Michael Drayton, Poly-Olbion, song 6 p. 89
- The Bards with furie rapt, the British youth among,
- To carry away by force.
- His only daughter had either been rapt away to the grave, or he was to have some wood-demon for a son-in-law, and, perchance, a troop of goblin grandchildren.1819-20, Washington Irving, The Spectre Bridegroom, The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent., reprinted in 1840, The Works of Washington Irving, Volume 1, page 256
- Out-rushing from his denne rapts all away1595, Samuel Daniel, “(please specify the folio number)”, in The First Fowre Bookes of the Ciuile Wars between the Two Houses of Lancaster and Yorke, London: […] P[eter] Short for Simon Waterson...
Noun
rapt (plural rapts)
- An ecstasy; a trance.
- the soul then is in rapt1671, The Life Of The Mother S. Teresa
- Rapidity.
- […] like the great exemplary wheeles of heaven, we must observe two Circles: that while we are daily carried about, and whirled on by the swinge and rapt of the one, we may maintain a naturall and proper course, in the slow and sober wheele of the other.1646, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, 2nd edition, London: Edw. Dod & Nath. Ekins, published 1650, Preface
rapt meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Bengali and Malayalam
rapt in Tamil
- ஆழ்ச் சிந்தனையான, ஆழ்ந்த, தன்னை மறந்த, மெய் மறந்து
rapt in Urdu
- اغوا, سکتہ
rapt in Bengali
- তন্ময়, সম্পূর্ণ মগ্ন
rapt in Malayalam
- മുങ്ങിയ, മുഴുകിയ, നിമഗ്നമായ
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- rapt in Kannada
- ಮಯ್ಮರೆತ, ಭಾವಪರವಶತೆಯಿಂದ ಕೂಡಿದ, ಮೈಮರೆತ, ಮುಗ್ಧ
Examples of rapt in a sentence
- Her expression grew more rapt; she paused as if she had lost the thread of the words and then spoke again, gazing far out over the hall as jugglers do in performing feats of balancing:[…].1906, Ford Madox Ford, The Fifth Queen; And How She Came to Court: Works of Ford Madox Ford, published 2011, unnumbered page:
- Close to flawless, and his audience — which he cannot see or hear — seems rapt.2019 April 10, qntm, “CASE HATE RED”, in There Is No Antimemetics Division, →ISBN, page 137:
- Creatures who navigate long-distance migrations — including the green turtles, wind birds, or great cranes — draw his most rapt commentaries.1996, James Richard Giles, Wanda H. Giles, American Novelists Since World War II: Fifth Series, page 139:
- He was rapt to have the Sudanese, and if 1600 more were coming – that was the rumour – well, he′d have been even more rapt.2010, Caroline Overington, I Came to Say Goodbye, page 201:
Synonyms of rapt
- absorbed
- bewitched
- captivated
- enchanted
- engaged
- engrossed
- enthralled
- entranced
- fascinated
- hypnotized
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Antonyms
Forms of rapt
| Adjective | |
|---|---|
| comparative | more rapt |
| comparative uncommon | rapter |
| superlative | most rapt |
| superlative uncommon | raptest |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | rapts |
| present participle | rapting |
| past participle | rapted |
| past | rapted |
| past participle | rapt |
| past | rapt |
| Noun | |
| plural | rapts |
Origin of rapt
Borrowed from Latin raptus, past participle of rapio (“to seize”).
Words formed from rapt
Words that rhyme with rapt
Questions about rapt
- What does rapt mean?
- Rapt means snatched, taken away; abducted.
- What is rapt in Tamil?
- Rapt in Tamil is ஆழ்ச் சிந்தனையான, ஆழ்ந்த, தன்னை மறந்த. See Rapt meaning in Tamil.
- How do you use rapt in a sentence?
- Her expression grew more rapt; she paused as if she had lost the thread of the words and then spoke again, gazing far out over the hall as jugglers do in performing feats of balancing:[…].
- What part of speech is rapt?
- Rapt can be an adjective, a verb or a noun.
- How do you pronounce rapt?
- Rapt is pronounced /ˈɹæpt/.
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Adapted from Wiktionary: rapt (page history and authors); rapt (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); rapt (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); rapt (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); rapt (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); rapt (Kannada Wiktionary) (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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