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rhapsodic

rhapsodic adjective: highly emotional; rapturous.

Adjective

rhapsodic

  1. highly emotional; rapturous
    • I love all that romantic stuff and I'm tired of seeing it given over entirely to straights when we experience the same stupid, fabulous, rhapsodic feelings in our own relationships.1977 December 17, Harold Pickett, quoting Jim Ferguson, “New York, New York”, in Gay Community News, volume 5, number 24, page 6
    • Charles Darwin once described his own brain as a machine for churning out hypotheses. Cavendish’s was an engine for generating finely calibrated distinctions: this, but not that. His analysis of a single substance could yield volumes of rhapsodic description.2015, Steve Silberman, chapter 1, in Megan Newman, editor, NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity, New York: Avery, →ISBN, page 29
  2. Of or relating to rhapsody; consisting of rhapsody
  3. (broadly) confused, unconnected

Origin of rhapsodic

From Latinized form of Ancient Greek ῥαψῳδῐκός (rhapsōidĭkós).

Words formed from rhapsodic

Questions about rhapsodic

What does rhapsodic mean?
Rhapsodic means highly emotional; rapturous.
What part of speech is rhapsodic?
Rhapsodic is an adjective.

Words near rhapsodic in the dictionary

  1. rhapontin
  2. rhapsode
  3. rhapsoder
  4. rhapsoders
  5. rhapsodes
  6. rhapsodic
  7. rhapsodical
  8. rhapsodically
  9. rhapsodie
  10. rhapsodies
  11. rhapsodise

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